Working class demands get suppressed in the media while Anna Hazare enjoys privileged treatment. What can account for this?

 Editor of The Hoot - a media watchdog website, Sevanti Ninan comments on the differences and similarities between Murdoch's media empire and what exists in India. She is interviewed in the context of the "phone hacking" scandal that has brought media moghul Murdoch in the dock in Britain.

Eminent commentator and rural affairs editor of The Hindu newspaper, P.Sainath speaks to Newsclick on media discourse and other issues related to the "Fourth Estate".

Senior Journalist Sadanand Menon critically examines the state of the Indian Media in the 21st century, taking into account the rise of the electronic media and the internet