How do you begin to write about media in a week when your fellow professionals are making utter fools of themselves? Headlines such as ‘Indrani ne sandwich khaya,’ are funny and many of us cracked jokes about it on Facebook. This however is not just about a funny, irrelevant headline — most tabloid journalism around the world is about that. It is about the many serious things that all the hullabaloo around the murder of Sheena Bora and the life of the accused Indrani Mukerjea has thrown.

It is convenient for almost everybody to blame India’s poorly run news media. Pic/AFP