On India Today, China military scholar Yun Sun is in conversation with Rahul Kanwal discussing China's point of view on the current standoff.
She says the argument that 'India is not the India of 1962 is not a meaningful argument'. The world has changed. #NLprimetime
She urges for talks and both nations coming together instead of arguments on whose military is stronger.
TV9 Bharatvarsh batting for Trump and talking of a 'saazish' against him. Context: Trump's classified phone calls, as you can see from that very graphic representation. #NLprimetime
Some very inspired ticker writing on India TV. Can't really translate this, but basically, China is calling out for India in desperation. Or 'China is saying India India' 😅 #NLprimetime
ANNNDDDD Kim is back on TV9. The channel is discussing his disappearance for the nth time. #NLprimetime
NDTV India is reporting on PM Modi's extension of free foodgrain scheme till November.
News discourse in times of COVID, India-China faceoff, Assam flood, Tamil Nadu police custodial deaths. Truly the pits.
Meanwhile, NDTV's been playing PM's speech for a while now.
ABP News showing that graphic video of a man assaulting a differently-abled lady because she asked him to wear a mask. The story could have been reported without showing that disturbing video, I think.
Ok, that wasn't a story really, just a recap of "viral videos" of the day. Disconcerting to see it being presented along with other viral videos of monkeys and other cutesy animal videos. A woman being assaulted is not viral material, ABP.
On Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary is urging people to join the war against China. He presents some nifty points on how you can contribute.
For starters, you can give missed calls to Zee News at this number.
On India Today, BJP spokie explaining why the PM did not speak about China in his speech today. #NLprimetime
Primetime almost over and we get our first discussion on TN custodial deaths.
On that note, it's a wrap. See you next week.
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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!