On India TV, a macabre report on crowded cemeteries in New Delhi. Punjabi Bagh cemetery, according to the channel, has had 609 corona cremations. People complain of a waiting line.
On Times Now, Saprpanch Ajay Pandita's father says he trusts the Army more than the administration. He asks not to politicise the issue as the channel runs the hashtag, #CongressCleanchitsIslamist. #NLprimetime
TV9 Bharatvarsh playing a video that supposedly shows the Chinese Army cracking down on Tibetans.
The video seems a bit suspect. Nevertheless, the focus is on "kroor [cruel] Cheen". The channel also calls the Chinese Army "chamgaadar khor". Which means, umm, bat-eating Army?
NewsX: Producing Arnab Lites since 2014. Here's another one who hopefully will make it to Times Now one day. #NLprimetime
News in times of Covid: "ICC has banned the use of saliva on the ball"
Republic reporter has reached Select City mall to tell us how India is unlocking.
The reporter tells us: "You can see we are entering from the door". "You can now see the preparations for taking the escalator." "Now you can see how lifts are being prepared."
On NDTV India, Ravish Kumar is looking at the multitudes of complaints coming in from hospitals in NCR — of negligence, lack of timely care leading to fatalities.
A sombre interview with a son who's just lost his mother. He's talking of how she was refused admission in multiple hospitals.
Meanwhile, on Zee News, China has been taught a lesson. Anchor Sudhir Chaudhary is explaining how the Chinese have surrendered. "China has learnt that this is not the India of 1962," he says.
Aaj Tak ticker has also told off China.
'This is not the India of 1962', 'In case of a war, India will prove to be a pain for China' and so on.
Times Now presenting the news with a very elegant hashtag. As elegant as Navika and Ashutosh going at each other. #NLprimetime
Deepak Ji wearing the mask as ably as he wore the spacesuit. #NLprimetime
If you watched the news tonight, you'd think India has destroyed China materially, financially, spiritually, wholly, fully, totally. Amazing.
On that note, it's a wrap. Evidently, it's too loud for the cat. Good night.
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The shift to aggressive reporting can be attributed to scale of devastation/mishandling. Reporters & editors clearly see that "readers want the truth to be told". Others offered a branding explanation: “Our managing director says Bhaskar must always stand with public opinion."
Another thing to note is Bhaskar's entry into digital: “Bhaskar has injected a new zeal in its digital team in Uttar Pradesh. Our newspaper is not published in Uttar Pradesh, and this is an attempt to establish it via the digital route."
There are plenty of journalists in India working for Indian orgs who are reporting on the pandemic bravely/meticulously. Noida-based studio ≠ 'domestic' media. In fact, Rana Ayyub hasn't reported on the pandemic but is repeatedly called on as a talkinghead in international media
Even a pro-BJP channel like Aaj Tak does have reporters on the ground getting us important updates from the ground. It's another matter that anchors like Anjana et al are not using their material to question the government on primetime.
Rana Ayyub has become the go-to person of lazy international media panels for everything from farmers protest to the pandemic, often pedalling half-baked exaggerations without putting in the rigour of reporting that many other Indian journalists do.
"Our job is also to give voice to people who don’t have it. And at a lot of these crematoriums people are coming up to us and expressing their grief and anger.”
As deaths from Covid surged in New York last year, Reuters, Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, BBC, Telegraph showed drone footage of caskets being buried in mass graves. There were similar reports from graveyards in Brazil, Italy and the UK.
India isn’t being singled out.
“This is the truth. We are documenting the truth and bearing witness to it,” said a reporter for a British media organisation. “It is very easy to lament the coverage and blame the messenger and far more difficult to ask for accountability. But nobody is making things up...”
Big win for @newslaundry against an extremely brainless attempt at harassing @tweets_prateekg for doing his job. The story in question was about layoffs in Sakal Times & they took umbrage to us using their logo for a story that is ABOUT the group. newslaundry.com/2021/04/21/no-…
It would have been a “completely different matter” if the articles used Sakal’s trademark to “portray” Newslaundry as the Sakal Media Group, the court pointed out, but instead, “there was no suggestion that the said news portal itself was that of Sakal”.
"RSS can be slow, but we need to act fast as the time is running out for us.”
In Amta constituency of Howrah, BJP has fielded one of its vocal critics — Hindu Samhati president for whom the RSS is too centrist. Report on the organisation & its men. newslaundry.com/2021/03/20/str…
The Hindu Samhati is home for pracharaks who have left the RSS fold. The organisation now attracts men who have formerly worked with mainstream political parties. Like Banti Khan who was born and brought up in 'Congress' culture.
“I attended Tapan Ghosh’s meeting of Hindu Samhati and really liked it,” Khan said. “My eyes opened up to how Muslims have captured our land, how Congress distorted history, and I joined the Samhita and now work with the BJP.”
.@ndtv is now showing a split-screen with visuals from farmer's protest. Rest of the channels remain on the DD feed.
NDTV's coverage is quite strange to watch. There's live commentary from the R-Day parade occupying most of the screen with visuals from ANI on what seems like tear gas gone off at the protest site. I am sure they have reporters on ground to cut live to?
What's the point of private news networks if everyone *has to* show the state broadcaster. People who want to see the parade can go to DD. Private news networks should be able to show reports along with R-Day parade. Especially when there's lathicharge happening in Delhi!