Rural blind spot?
On March 29 Al Jazeera had a ten-minute coverage on The Indian media's rural blind spot: it contained figures from small surveys, such as the monthly coverage of rural India on the first page of Hindi and English papers (1.4 % for Hindu in Dec. 2014; zero for rest) and channels (6.6% for Aaj Tak in Dec. 2014; almost zero for most English channels). The report had usual suspects—P. Sainath; Gaon Connection; Khabar Lahariya; except for Rajdeep Sardesai, who conceded, “Let me be honest: the business model of Television today is struggling to try and plough back investment in business…”