"dispatches took root on an olive farm in Provence, flourished on a Kashmiri houseboat, and was toasted into reality with champagne at the East Gate of Angkor Wat. Its founders are a photographer who believes his lens should not filter out humanity, a reporter who feels real news can only be seen from up close in its historical perspective, and a pharmaceutical executive who thinks entrepreneurs should do more than make money."
the Indian masses are only learning to handle a life that begins and ends with sound bites and breaking news pieces. And there's no doubt that they're game for more. this adrenaline-rush model where news items come into the public consciousness and go out of it only to be replaced with more news at the speed of sound, if not light is nothing new: its new only for us.
Anyway, what I’m talking about here is this new venture,or adventure rather since the American Journal Review characterises it as bucking the trend (. At a time when attention spans are falling from mins to secs to nanos to..., this group of gamblers brings out a piece of journalism that would seem counter intuitive to the dominant logic of market.
Even though papers, in the West, are becoming redundant, TVs endangered and Web seems to be calling the shots, or would be doing so, they really believe that they'll be able to pull off without the virtual resources. I won't say anymore, read it for yourself:
