The American media have publicly analysed charges of bias against themselves in the coverage of the 2012 Presidential election.
Soundbite journalism allows those making the charges to get onto a soapbox and have their say without any accountability.
Its not clear whether ‘Didi’, who had portrayed herself as a champion of democracy, approves of such behavior but it is obvious to the field reporters in Kolkata that the media is on its knees.
While the Telegraph covered city based colleges and universities, Anandabazar Patrika looked at the significant role that student politics plays in the state, covering college elections across districts with greater regularity and with in-depth ana
The Telegraph tried really hard to find local angles to the US President’s visit. Its Bengal counterpart Anandabazar Patrika however went for straight news coverage which put the Telegraph in the shade.
Reporting Ayodhya IV--The Telegraph as well as Anandabazar Patrika came up with some amazing headlines – good, bad, ugly, convoluted, confused – during the Ayodhya pre-verdict and post-verdict coverage,
The minority perspective got virtually no space in both the Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph in the run up to the Ayodhya verdict.
Front benchers at Trinamul press conferences often shout down other reporters asking ‘unpleasant’ or ‘difficult’ questions to Mamata Banerjee or any of her party leaders.
Journalists often have a tendency to the sweep legal aspects of the situation totally under the carpet, and a sub plot in 'Paa' satirises this point.
Are journalists so dependent on Kishenji's phone calls to cover Maoist issues in West Midnapore that they are willing to take all kind of arrogant, humiliating nonsense from him,