Re: Is India a model Democracy?

[Padmanabha Rao <kvprao@igidr.ac.in>]

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 vamsi@siliconcorp.com wrote:
 Lack of information creates a "potential" or a "need" for more
 information, not less information!!

True. And providing that information is not dished out as knowledge, or
data is not dished out as information. The (multimedia) Press should
serve
all, data, information and knowledge, characteristically, reliably and
without any bias. That's a real FREE press, free of bias, agenda or
encumberances. When instead data/info is produced as info/knowledge, or
info/knowledge is produced as data/info and so on (creativity, that's
all!), it breeds anything but a model democrasy. And I think it is
important for a democratic society to ensure that there is a free press
to
begin with.

Who or what decides the definitions of "data", "information",
"knowledge",
and so on ? I wish I knew. The best assumption is to believe that
everyone
does for his/herself. In which case, you begin to wonder if there's
any such thing as a free press possible at all.

Thanks.

Padmanabha Rao



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