Label your footage

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/01/2014

In a report titled 'Modi to address mega meet' Times Now used old file shots of large crowds thronging an unknown venue while the voice over said that more than one lakh people are expected to attend Modi's meeting in Mumbai. While predicting there would be large crowds at Modi's meeting, there was no need for the reporter/editor to put file shots of crowds from another venue. Labeling file footage is something all TV news channels are doing less and less.