Mangalore, July 2: Owing to the growing colour and layout craze, newspaper supplements are turning out to be 'distbins of words' said Jogi, popular columnist and Editor, Udayavani weekly supplement.
He was speaking at a programme organized by the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association at Press Club in Mangalore on Monday.
Lamenting that media establishments have gradually distanced literature from newspapers, Mr. Jogi said that Editorial and Op-Ed pages would once carry content of great literary value. “Today, Edit pages and Op-Ed pages are being wasted by featuring debates on trivial issues”, he observed.
Recalling his younger days, Mr. Jogi said that writer-journalists like P Lankesh had inspired him. Writers like Lankesh, P Sainath etc have contributed to literature as well as journalism, he said, adding that encouragement to literature is not being given in Kannada journalism today. “There is a need for Kannada literary figures to take initiatives and figure in the news world, the way likes of Chetan Bhagat make their presence felt in English media”, he said.
On a lighter note, Mr. Jogi said that earlier, newspapers would take people's problems to politicians but today they are bringing politicians' problems to people.
Vasanth Kumar Perla, Programme Executive, Akashavani, Mangalore, in his inaugural address said that journalists must not sacrifice credibility for competition. Visual media like television have a greater responsibility towards the society as they are more powerful in terms of communication compared to print and radio, he said.
P B Harish Rai, President, Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association, welcomed. Ram Krishna Rao, President, Mangalore Press Club, proposed the vote of thanks.
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