Dhaka, May 9 -- The Media is always in the media focus and when it's so politically involved, almost an activist media in general, this is only to be expected. Public expectation of the media's role is that of a supporter of its perceived socio-political and economic objectives hence the functional role of the media has probably transitioned into one of structural "bias" where a media unit is judged based not on its objectivity but depending on how subjective it is.

Why that is so and why subjective media is more popular is linked but not exclusive to the media space. its more about the nature of the State and the kind of economics that propos up such a state. What has been basically observed is that a market economy based on competition...