Countering TV anchors

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/10/2017

The J&K Tourism Department has decided that an ad agency it uses will produce positive programmes on Kashmir. This is an effort to counter the harm that the state government thinks is done by "hyper nationalistic media in India (which) ran shows on prime time selling lies about Kashmir ". The government apparently thinks this was responsible for the sharp fall in tourist traffic to the state in 2017. The programmes will be given to media reaching audiences in different parts of the country.

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