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Managing Editor at @newslaundry || Doer of TV Newsance, weekly show on all the insanity that passes off as news on Indian TV https://t.co/dVrW84rzwD

Jun 23, 2020, 14 tweets

#NLprimetime begins. According to TV9 Bharatvarsh, @realDonaldTrump will soon destroy China. White House may please clarify.

AYUSH ministry has asked Patanjali to stop advertising or publicising claims of Coronil curing Corona.

ABP News: Fikar not, we'll do the job. #NLprimetime

Aaj Tak: Fikar not, we'll do the job. #NLprimetime

Times Now: Fikar not, we'll do the job. #NLprimetime

So sweet. Lack of scientific proof is a mere "concern" for Navika Kumar. #QuackJournalists #NLprimetime

"Why are we prejudiced? Just because he's a saffron Baba?" -- Navika Kumar. #NLprimetime

Award for the best brand partner goes to ABP News.

"It's a matter of great pride for us if we have given a cure to the world but maybe we should not claim a cure," says NDTV anchor alongside a what one can only call a giant ad for the corona kit. #NLprimetime

Scintillating questioning on NDTV. Should Corona Kit be tested? Umm, I don't know.

Amazing that all these channels with their big budgets and teams couldn't do some basic research or questioning. BEFORE the Ayush minister, Chief Medical Officer Dr Rajkumar told @newslaundry: "This claim is wrong. We didn't have any doctors who tested positive..."

"यह दावा गलत है. हमारे यहां कोई डॉक्टर तो पॉजिटिव आया नहीं है. आनंद में लगभग दो महीना पहले एक मरीज पॉजिटिव आया था. जिसके बाद यहां के लोगों कोक्वारंटाइन किया गया. 14 दिनों बाद सब काम पर लौट आए. हमने उन्हें पतंजलि का कुछ भी खाने के लिए बोला नहीं था. वो खुद खा रहे हों तो अलग बात है.

Read @Basantrajsonu's detailed report on this from today morning before channels went on a frenzy to promote it.
newslaundry.com/2020/06/22/pat…

On that note, it's a wrap. Good night. See you next week on #NLprimetime

English translation of the story.
newslaundry.com/2020/06/24/mee…

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