Sunday, September 14, 2008


Guys with half baked information and misinformed are spreading incorrect news. Here is one such mail I got from a person who I dont know. The basic fact that proves that the information in the mail in largely incorrect is at the bottom of the mail.
--- On Fri, 12/9/08, rammohan kandlakunta wrote:
> From: rammohan kandlakunta
> Subject: Fw: Who owns India Media
> To: satishkamaal@yahoo.co.in
> Date: Friday, 12 September, 2008, 4:26 PM
> --- On Sun, 3/8/08, saridena rahul
> wrote:
>
> From: saridena rahul
> Subject: Fw: Who owns India Media
> To: dj_kumar@rediffmail.com
> Cc: shivadare@yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, 3 August, 2008, 7:23 AM
>
>
> Dear Friends
>
> As per your request im hereby forwarding the e-mail to you.
> Lets keep in touch
> regularly and share our views,News together and do something great
> for ourselves, our religion, nation and the world at large.
>
> thanks & Regards
> rahul
>
>
>
>
> > A VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE ... A MUST READ **
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Who owns the media in **India** ?*
> >
> > There are several major publishing groups in India ,
> the
> > mostprominent among
> > them being the Times of India Group,the Indian Express Group, the
> > Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika
> > Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the
> > Mathrubhumi
> group,
> > the
> > Saharagroup, the Bhaskar group,and the Dainik Jagran
> group.
> >
> >
> > Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.
> > *
> > NDTV*: A very popular TV news media is funded by
> Gospels of
> > Charity in Spain
> > Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft
> corner
> > towards
> > Pakistanbecause
> > Pakistan President has allowed only thischannel to be
> aired
> > in Pakistan .
> > Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General
> > Secretary of the Communist party of India.His wife and Brinda Karat
> are
> > sisters.
> > *
> > India Today *which used to be the only national weekly
> who
> > supported BJP is
> > now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and
> > turned into Hindu bashing.
> > *
> > CNN-IBN:* This is 100 percent funded by Southern
> Baptist
> > Church with its
> > branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The
> Church
> > annually allocates
> > $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian
> head
> > is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.
> > *
> > Times group list:*
> > Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times,Stardust , Femina,
> > VijayaTimes, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel)
> and
> > many more.. Times
> > Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council' does
> > 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally
> > share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close
> > relative of Sonia Gandhi.
> > *
> > Star TV:* It is run by an Australian, who is supported
> by
> > St. Peters
> > Pontificial Church Melbourne .
> > *
> > **Hindustan** Times*: Owned by Birla Group, but hands
> have
> > changed since
> > Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration
> > with Times Group.
> > *
> > The Hindu:*
> > English daily, started over 125 years has been
> recently
> > taken over by Joshua
> > Society, Berne , Switzerland . N.Ram's wife is a
> Swiss
> > national.
> > *
> > Indian Express: Divided into two groups*.
> >
> > The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern
> > edition) ACTS Christian
> > Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is
> > still with the Indian counterpart.
> > *
> > Eeenadu: *Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.
> > Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a
> huge
> > studio in Andhra
> > Pradesh
> > *
> > Andhra Jyothi: *The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as
> MIM
> > along with a
> > Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.
> > *
> > The Statesman:* It is controlled by Communist Party of India.
> >
> > *
> > Kairali TV: *It is controlled by Communist party of
> India
> > (Marxist)
> > *
> > Mathrubhoomi: *Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have
> > major investment.
> > *
> > Asian Age and **Deccan** Chronicle*: Is owned by a
> Saudi
> > Arabian Company
> > with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.
> >
> > Gujrat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus
> were
> > burnt alive,
> > Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for Star TV
> at
> > that time got
> > around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover
> only
> > Muslim victims
> > which they did very faithfully. Not a single Hindu
> family
> > was interviewed or
> > shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is
> > reported
> > *
> > Tarun Tejpal of *<*
> >
> **Tehelka*.com> F%2Ftehelka%2Ecom%2F&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>
> > regularly gets flat check from Arab countries to
> target
> > BJP and Hindus
> > only, it is said.
> >
> > The ownership explains the control of media in India
> by
> > foreigners. The
> > result is obvious.
> >
> > Is this what our country forefathers envisioned in the consitution ?
> > It is one thing the media says they are mouthpiece of such
> and
> > such
> > organization, and talk about it. But another when
> they
> > misuse the freedom
> > given and pose as National Media when they are simply
> paid
> > agents,
> > propagandists. It is time all Indians take notice. In
> the
> > end everyone
> > suffers.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Rahul
> > (M) 9346629169
Facts : NDTV is a public limited company. The details of its shareholders is a public document and is available on www.bseindia.com. stock code 532529

India Today is part of the TV today network which is a public limited company the details of its shareholders are there in www.bseindia.com

CNN-IBN is part of IBN18 which is a public limited company. The point that it is funded by Southern Baptist Church is baseless the details of its shareholders is available at www.bseindia.com stock code : 5328000

Vijay Times and Vijay Karnataka are owned by Vijay Mallya.

I stay in Andhra Pradesh and I am not aware of any Congress Minister and MIM leader buying Andhra Jyoti.

Deccan Chronicle is owned by Deccan Chronicle holdings limited. Details of its shareholders are available on www.bseindia.com, stock code : 532608 and MJ Akbar is no longer the Editor-in-Chief of Deccan Chronicle.

These are just few examples to prove that this is a malicious campaign by those who want to project that Indian media is 'bought over'. Before saying that so and so foreign company has invested one should know the fact that as on today no foreign investor can own more than 26 percent of the equity.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very good work on ur part to expose these lies that have been circulating in the www. This is infact a malicious campaign by Sangh Parivar affiliated groups on the www which has been going on for some time.