Not news without a communal angle?
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |28/04/2018
Do journalists not jump on something unless they sniff a communal angle? Three doctors from the BRD Medical Hospital were made scapegoats and arrested in the Gorakhpur crisis where 30 children died. Dr Kafeel Khan, hailed by the media as the ``hero'' who had arranged oxygen cylinders, was charged with attempt to..
BY N. P. CHEKKUTTY| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |25/04/2018
Kerala youths were drawn into violent protests over the Kathua case by anonymous WhatsApp calls made by shadowy forces with ulterior motives
Reporting Communal Issues – Part II
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/03/2018
Hadiya’s conversion and marriage suffered the biased, hate-filled, anti-Muslim treatment that is now routine for some TV channels.
How Zee and ABP News sowed communal poison
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/03/2018
Their coverage of Ankit Saxena’s murder was a master class in hate-mongering. Reporting Communal Issues - Part I
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/10/2017
The life of Hadiya – confined for converting to Islam and marrying a Muslim - has become the property of her father, the media, and the courts
Inciting a communal free for all
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/07/2017
Television shows on West Bengal’s communal situation did their best to pit Hindus against Muslims..
Times of India in Kerala demonises Shias
BY MUHAMMED SABITH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/08/2017
A one-sided story painting a picture of Shias plotting to take over is a classic example of rumour and conjecture replacing facts.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/07/2017
Arnab Goswami has discovered Muslim appeasement in Basirhaat in Mamata Banerjee's state and hollered away about it for two nights in a row on Republic TV. On July 4 he thundered that the CM was turning West Bengal into fatwastan and asked repeatedly, "Is there Muslim appeasement in West Bengal?"..
Selective coverage of atrocities
BY SHUBHAM VERMA| IN MEDIA MONITORING |09/03/2017
Why do some anti-dalit and anti-minority atrocities dominate the news while others are ignored?
Why NDTV ban and Zee FIR are not comparable
BY ROHIN KUMAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/01/2017
The first was an attack on free speech. The Mamata govt FIR aims to stop Zee from inciting Hindu-Muslim enmity with its coverage of the Dhulagarh riots.
No govt ads for 'extremist' Kerala paper
BY MUHAMMED SABITH| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |05/11/2016
Seven years ago, Kerala stopped giving government ads to Thejas on the grounds that the newspaper promoted religious hatred. The policy continues.
BY Abdul Kalam Azad| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/09/2016
Cast as the ‘other’, dubbed ‘Bangladeshi’ and incessantly victimized, the Bengal-origin Muslim is fair game, with the media actively whipping up hatred.
Media parrots the BJP in Aligarh
BY M. REYAZ| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/07/2016
Muzaffanagar, Kairana, Aligarh…….why do leading newspapers spread the false stories of ‘a forced Hindu exodus’ concocted by the BJP
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |17/06/2016
This ET story is extraordinary. It amounts to undiluted airing of the BJP's communal accusations. When a reporter tracks a BJP fact-finding team to Kairana, the town that is in the news for the alleged exodus of Hindus and the story is accompanied by a video, should she then file a report without..
Hitting the wrong note in Assam
BY ANURAAG BARUAH| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/06/2016
The media got the story of the Muslim boy who topped the Class 10 exam wrong. His religion was irrelevant.
Playing Down the Malda Violence
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN OPINION |17/02/2016
Was it because the mob was Muslim and the victims Hindu? The English media’s credibility is at issue.
The fringe element is in our living room
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/11/2015
In the intolerance debate, TV channels have been stoking the Hindu-Muslim fires.
Aamir's 'alarm' and media bias
BY ANUP KUMAR| IN OPINION |25/11/2015
The cliche ‘one is an anecdote, two is a coincidence and three is a trend’ explains the media’s ‘intolerance’ narrative..
Seeking legitimacy for hate speech
BY PADMAJA SHAW| IN JUDGEMENTS |23/11/2015
The outcome of Subramanian Swamy’s case is going to be important for the future of both free speech and hate speech in India.
BY PADMAJA SHAW| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/10/2015
After each attack on free speech, the television channels choose to rant and bring in a chorus of Parivar apologists to fully justify their politics.
Christian persecution: fact or fiction?
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/04/2015
By selectively focusing on violent incidents in Churches, the media has created a Christians-under-siege narrative.
IN OPINION |20/02/2015
Narendra Modi's belated statement condemning religious violence was either welcomed in fairly pedestrian editorials or ignored by some business papers.
The Pioneer rationalises, poor dear
IN OPINION |28/01/2015
The Pioneer edit was an awful embarrassment as it tried to explain away Obama's remark on religious tolerance.
BY Anuraag Baruah| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |27/12/2014
This headline in the Assam Tribune was a reflection of the state of English journalism in Assam -- mindless and communal,
Banned for telling the truth about riots?
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |10/10/2014
Shubhradeep Chakravorty's widow is planning to take the fight to screen his film on the Muzaffarnagar riots to the courts.
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |18/09/2014
The use of the term "love jihad" by the media needs questioning, alongside other issues of why inflammatory remarks by politicians are reported and the treatment they are given.
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |03/08/2014
Compare TV coverage of the Saharanpur riot with print's efforts and for once, the former did a better job. But look carefully at riot coverage in general and you find a double standard emerging,
Juicy stories buried in election season
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |04/05/2014
The Prime Minister's brother joining the BJP rightly made page one news. What about the brother of Sohrabuddin, killed in a fake encounter investigated by the CBI, deciding to campaign for the BJP
Hate speech regulations: stringent investigations only the first step
BY Geeta Seshu| IN OPINION |14/03/2014
Hate speech cases are highly politicised and undermine basic law enforcement principles,
1984 riots are centre stage again
BY AMITABH SRIVASTAVA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/02/2014
It is unfortunate that when both Modi and the Congress were trying to bury the communal issues, the anchor of the most popular show has resurrected the ghosts of 1984 riots once again,
BY KABIR ALI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/09/2012
The reportage in Urdu newspapers was substantially responsible for the after-effects of Assam violence.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/03/2012
The Indian media are often guilty of representing the Muslim extremist view as the general stance of the community, thereby branding it as irrational and rabidly non-secular.
BY SHAIK ZAKEER HUSSAIN|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|19/07/2011
The trigger happy Indian media has always shot off volleys at a series of Islamic organisations (real and imagined) every time there have been bomb blasts.
IN BOOKS |22/03/2011
The Hoot book review: It is evident from both the books that Christian evangelism has converted the world into a global village based on religion. In the process it has also influenced other religions and been influenced by them.
BY Ajitha Menon|IN REGIONAL MEDIA|23/10/2010
The minority perspective got virtually no space in both the Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph in the run up to the Ayodhya verdict.
BY Padmaja Shaw and Nagamallika G|IN REGIONAL MEDIA|18/10/2010
In Hyderabad both Eenadu and Deccan Chronicle bent over backwards to maintain balance. One defining feature of Eenadu was the effort it took to present both the sides for almost all stories.
BY HOOT survey|IN REGIONAL MEDIA|16/10/2010
Gujarati newspapers used treatment, rather content, to indicate their pro- verdict stance. Did TOI’s well-meaning communal harmony efforts reaffirm stereotypes? Our series on Comparative Coverage begins with the Ayodhya coverage in Gujarat.
Reporting in times of communal strife --IV
BY Subarno Chattarji|IN REGIONAL MEDIA|09/09/2010
More than Kashmir Times published from Jammu, commentary in Greater Kashmir highlighted the alienation – economic, physical, and psychological – fostered by the blockade and the fact that it was directly antithetical to India’s claim to the Valley,
Reporting in times of communal strife --III
IN MEDIA PRACTICE|05/09/2010
Comments and editorials that followed the Amarnath land allocation dispute revealed a desire for communal harmony and a need for calm deliberation rather than rabble rousing.
Reporting in times of communal strife --II
IN MEDIA PRACTICE|02/09/2010
Media narratives: Jammu versus Kashmir. The Dainik Jagran published from Jammu took it upon itself in the summer of 2008 to give voice to Jammu’s anger, anguish and sense of discrimination.
Reporting in times of communal strife
IN MEDIA PRACTICE|31/08/2010
Two years after Amarnath erupted and caused a lasting schism between Jammu and Kashmir, The Hoot looks at the role played by the media in the state. Did they rise above the strife or did they opt to cater to their home constituencies?
When Bigotry rules: Religiosity and censorship in Goa
BY Frederick Noronha| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/08/2010
The attack on the paintings of Dr Jose Pereira by the Hindu Janjagrut Sanghatana was appalling, but what of the response of the State, intellectuals and the media?
BY KASHIF-U| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/05/2010
Within 24 hours of this news being flashed on NDTV this week, all major media of India have reported this over a month old fatwa.
BY SR Ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/10/2008
There should not be separate standards for reporting communal clashes – one for Hindu-Muslim strife and the other for Hindu-Christian violence.
Churches and conversions in the Bangalore press
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/09/2008
Hardly ever are people who are actually in a position to illuminate the scene with the light of knowledge quoted in the press or interviewed on television.
Orissa violence: lies and media reports
BY Vishal Arora| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/08/2008
The newspaper report, which is being circulated by email and on the Web by supporters of the Sangh Parivar, is not only inflammatory, but also factually incorrect.
Lending hate campaigns a platform
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/02/2008
At the height of the campaign, the TOI group¿s Maharashtra Times allowed Raj Thackeray to justify and expand upon his hate campaign in a long piece titled `"My stand, My fight’’
BY Dasu Krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/10/2007
Even as Tehelka revives Gujarat 2002, winds of change are sweeping the Muslim community that need media attention. The Hindustan Times has been running a series celebrating the arrival of the New Muslim who abhors Sachar crutches or government doles.
If its Gujarat it must be communal
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2006
Deccan Chronicle displayed the tendency of the English press to sensationalise and communalize news relating to Gujarat.
Vadodara—stoking communal sentiments
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/05/2006
Professional ethics demand that, on such occasions, the media conducts itself with utmost restraint, not stoking communal tension.
BY darius| IN OPINION |08/05/2006 ?
The more I read editorials, the more I wonder why those who write them are paid so much. Any blogger would do just as well.
Revisiting some truths in the Radhabai Chawl case
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/04/2006
A rejoinder to Dasu Krishnamoorty`s assertion that the media did not pursue acquittals in the Radhabhai chawl case because the accused were Muslims.
Remember the dead of the Radhabai Chawl?
BY Dasu Krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/03/2006
The media campaigned on Best Bakery and will do so for Jessica Lal. But why did it not pursue acquittals in the Radhabai chawl case as doggedly
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/09/2004
The media’s indulgence towards a rabid communal politician such as Uma Bharti is nothing new.
An activist magazine completes a decade
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/09/2003
I wish the day would come when there wouldn?t be the need for Communalism Combat.
Why Navakaal was charged with contempt of court
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/1900
The issue here goes beyond freedom of the press and the image of the judiciary. It concerns the effect a newspaper has on relations between the majority and minority communities
Media Focus: Investigating Godhra
BY ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/12/2002
Workshop on covering communal conflict
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/09/2002
National symposium on Gujarat Carnage and Media; A Report
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/08/2002
The Hindu, Hindus, and Hindutva
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/01/1900
Gujarat and the media: inconsistent secularism
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/08/2002
