"The Feel-Good Factory: Mass Media vs. Mass Reality"

P. Sainath - “The Feel-Good Factory: Mass Media vs. Mass Reality”
February 22, 5 pm
Graduate School of Journalism Library, North Gate Hall
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism

Selected as Critic's Choice: UC Berkeley Calendar of Events

The writing of P. Sainath, one of Asia’s leading development journalists, focuses on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the lives of people, poverty, and food security in rural India. He is currently the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu. Believing that responsible journalism can help to change things for the better, Sainath wrote a series of seventy newspaper articles for The Times of India chronicling the living conditions in India’s ten poorest districts. For two years he traveled across India, often on foot, in hill areas, drought-prone areas, and tribal areas to put the issue of poverty back on the national agenda. His work resulted in an award-winning book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought.