BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/06/2015
A show with Smriti Irani descended into an ugly spectacle, seemingly by design.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/12/2014
…without probing the facts, the result is a mess under which the truth is buried.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/11/2014
In covering controversial godman Rampal, news channels ignored their own role in promoting superstition.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/11/2014
Pundits are scrambling over one another to tell Congress how it can regain its health.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/09/2014
The media hysteria was focused on everything except the strategic give and take.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/09/2014
Print provided rational assessments but the TV debates were mere sensation-mongering and that too, over trivia rather than real issues.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |23/08/2014
Web videos are more powerful in sending out catchy messages and triggering debate.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |17/08/2013
The acerbic voices on social media are becoming the judge, jury and the executioner.
BY ALKA GURHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/07/2013
Picking one word or remark from the entire speech of a leader and dissecting it endlessly on prime time leads to further polarisation than was intended.
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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