IN Media Watch Briefs | 2018-09-05
Some seven weeks before today's arrest of lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj and other activists, allegations made in a programme on Republic TV aired defamatory and unattributed charges against her calling her Comrade Sudha, showing a letter which she had purportedly sent. Anchors on the channel called her and others 'urban naxals' and alleged links..
IN Media Watch Briefs | 2018-08-09
Is the ubiquitous ABP proprietor occupying the newsroom after the exit of top editors? The channel, covering the death of DMK leader M Karunanidhi today had this headline: "Karnatak se 5 baar CM rahe the Karunanidhi!' (Karunanidhi was a five-time CM of Karnataka). ..
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/12/2017
On triple talaq, the channel imputed nefarious motives to an NGO for ‘contacting’ MPs and later took down the video to alter the look and feel of the debate. Why?
Ravish Kumar’s magnificent obsession
BY JYOTI PUNWANI| IN OPINION |05/11/2017
The NDTV India anchor has been exposing in relentless and riveting detail the shameful state of India’s universities
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BY MOAZUM MOHAMMAD| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/08/2017
In the guise of debate, Kashmiris are being subjected to vilification, venom, and finger-wagging by jingoistic anchors. Some are saying ‘no thank you’.
Patra was way out of line but does Razdan own the show??
BY ANUP KUMAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/06/2017 ?
A professional journalist does not own air time. She has borrowed the time from the public as a trustee of public interest,
Goswami and Tharoor: Is defamation now toothless?
BY SREELATA MENON|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|12/05/2017
Arnab Goswami’s wild accusations against Shashi Tharoor show that increasingly the fear of being charged with defamation fails to stop scurrilous attacks.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/05/2017
So I got working on getting back to where you can hear me and see me.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |10/11/2016
First Arnab Goswami hammered away at the Congress and other critics for two days in a row on Times Now's Newshour for not hailing the demonetisation move. Now Zee has decided to lend its shoulder to ensuring the success of the prime minister's "path breaking" initiative. That adjective is from.. ??
The Newshour will end--mercifully
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/11/2016
He’s going but the Newshour could not have gone on for much longer. After all, how low, how noisy, how crude, how abusive can you go? ??
The Nation Wants to Know! But which Nation
BY JEFF JOSEPH PAUL KADICHEENI| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |21/10/2016
When the agenda of a channel like Times Now is driven by a tiny group of Indians on social media, at least three fourths of the country is left out. What about their right to be informed?
Kuldeep’s homecoming, live on television
BY TERESA REHMAN| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |11/09/2016
Released by his abductors, a young man in ULFA’s captivity for a month, returns home to hounding by the TRP brigade.
The awesome unreadiness of WION
BY SHUMA RAHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/08/2016
Its reportage is rudimentary, programming sketchy and analysis of news and current affairs next to non-existent.
BY JYOTI MALHOTRA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/08/2016
Neither his employer nor other media veterans buy Arnab Goswami’s fulminations on what can or cannot be said about Kashmir.
Saintly Melodrama at Prime Time
BY ANAND VARDHAN| IN OPINION |24/02/2016
Ravish Kumar’s histrionics on NDTV are well-received while other anchors are lampooned as dangerous rabble rousers.
How Zee TV fuelled state action against JNU students
BY HOOT| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/02/2016
Local police filed their FIR not on the basis of the information they gathered on campus on February 9, but on the basis of Zee TV footage made available to them.
The art of manufacturing nationalist outrage
BY SEVANTI NINAN| IN OPINION |17/02/2016
Evidently the Times Group does not have a problem with the damage their anchor and channel can do.
Requiem for a demonised university
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/02/2016
The coverage of such crises have always thrown up the responsibility aspect of our media. In its quest for prime time justice it seems oblivious to the damage it does,
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |25/04/2015
As every party shamelessly exploited Gajendra Singh's suicide for their own ends, AAP's spokesman Ashutosh outdid them all with his studio tears.
BY ANAND VARDHAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/12/2014
Rajdeep Sardesai talks darkly of media persecution under Modi.
AIUDF's court offensive against NewsX
BY SUBIR BHAUMIK| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/11/2014
By filing 22 defamation cases against the news channel in 22 districts, for linking it with jihadi activities, the AIUDF is countering what it calls media terror with its own legal terror,
Abusive media vs angry legislature
|IN REGIONAL MEDIA|19/06/2014
Telugu channel TV9's sarcastic and scathing coverage of events in the new Telangana legislature has set the stage for a legal confrontation.
BY hoot| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |30/05/2014
One of the recent irritants in the run up to RIL's formal takeover of Network 18 and TV 18 has been the coverage of AAP by its news channels.
BY Mannika Chopra| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/05/2014
Many, many opinions, and some facts too, on news channels as the results of a hotly contested election are announced.
Modi-Times Now interview and the issue of language
BY ARJUN RAJKHOWA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/05/2014
Will we continue to have interviews in which the head of a state will speak in Hindi while being asked questions in English?
BY Rana Ayyub| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/04/2014
If Ansari did not probe Rahul on the charges levelled against Robert Vadra, nor did Rajat Sharma grill Modi on Snoopgate or Kejriwal's charges regarding the Adani group.
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/03/2014
It was vintage Rajdeep who grilled a rather uncomfortable M J Akbar, on what prompted him to join a party that most Indian Muslims fear,
Driving justice: the Tejpal-Telheka coverage
BY The Hoot| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |18/03/2014
It was a case of sexual assault with no physical evidence, but plenty of verbal evidence. And the media went completely overboard. Over 12 days Times Now spent more than 50 per cent of its news time at 8-10 pm on this story.
Open Mikes are insightful and irreverent
BY BIRAJ SWAIN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/03/2014
The Open Mike format is a welcome relief from the surfeit of studio panellists. It brings ordinary Indians to the forefront and their rooted realities and frank opinions determine the discourse,
BY BIRAJ SWAIN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/01/2014
If there was one time that the Bhasa press schooled elite journalists of English news channels on how to tackle a presidential speech, then this was it!
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/09/2013
Channels had a field day playing archive footage, all of which was meant to lionise the leader.
BY AJITH PILLAI| IN OPINION |06/06/2013
Close on the heels of FirstPost acquiring FakingNews.com, rumours have surfaced that a mega TV project may soon be launched which would provide 'genuine' fake news.
BY A correspondent| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/04/2013
Four Telugu channels spewed moral outrage about a group of students indulging in revelry.
BY Padmaja Shaw| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/02/2013
It is a minor leap of faith after that to throw around names, photos and police sketches from the morgues to beef up the stories and ramp up jingoism.
BY pramod kumar|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|13/10/2011
Driven by its own agenda, television news has been reduced to a hollow fourth pillar and has abandoned its role as a bulwark of democracy,
Breaking News: We killed him first
BY T S Sudhir| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/09/2011
The competition among news channels to declare the son of cricketer Azharuddin dead after an accident highlighted the depths to which `breaking news' journalism has sunk.
BY Padmaja Shaw| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/09/2011
On prime time news on Sept. 8 NDTV, CNN IBN and Times Now all chose in their synchronised wisdom to go after Mr Praful Patel. But lost steam when it came to the second CAG report on the Petroleum ministry and Reliance.
BY TERESA REHMAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/10/2010
The triumphant husband accused his wife of adultery in full media glare, an amazing instance of intrusion of privacy and character assassination by TV channels.
BY Indian Express| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/02/2010
JEHANGIR POCHA, The co-promoter of NewsX, was not amused by SHAILAJA BAJPAI’s half-humorous take on TV news in the week gone by.
BY T S Sudhir|IN MEDIA PRACTICE|08/10/2010
BY Md Ali| IN BOOKS |10/08/2010
Is political representation on so-called national television diverse? Of course not. National politics is represented on television debates by just six politicians from the Congress and BJP.
BY Indian Express| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/02/2010
JEHANGIR POCHA, The co-promoter of NewsX, was not amused by SHAILAJA BAJPAI’s half-humorous take on TV news in the week gone by.
TV9 brings you the floods, live!
BY Padmaja Shaw| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/10/2009
One saw several reporters in waist deep water, waving mics at people for sound bites. Another reporter on a boat waved the mic for bites from a person in neck-deep water!
Whipping up panic over Australian racism
BY Rajni Luthra| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/06/2009
BY The Hoot| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/02/2009
Among those who were not amused at NDTV’s choice were the jury of its Indian of the Year awards. This was not an award that they had voted on.
BY S R Ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/07/2008
Is it the job of a TV channel to provide proof to any Constitutional authority, in this case the Speaker, before telecasting the news to its viewers?
CNN IBN explains why it did not telecast the tapes
BY CNN IBN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/07/2008
Since the speculation is based on hearsay, conjecture and mere guess-work, we at CNN-IBN, feel that it is necessary to set the record straight
BY Padmaja Shaw| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2008
Do we, citizens of this country, actually need protective laws to save us from the ugliness of media?
Remember, Mohinder is a suspect
BY Dasu Krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/01/2007
The near-fatal attack on Mohinder Singh has everything to do with what people have read and seen about Nithari barbarity.
BY sevanti ninan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |04/11/2007 ?
The first few hours after the imposition of Emergency in Pakistan became a speculative free for all, backed by stock footage.
Indian TV hits nadir with Prince saga?
BY IANS| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/07/2006 ?
Wasnøt this publicity lopsided? Didn’t channels go over the top?
BY sr r| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/07/2006 ?
Like Jessica Lal and Rajesh Kataria, Prince became subject of a television crusade because he was close enough to Delhi.
BY krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/11/2006
If public opinion were the criterion to convict or acquit a person, the courts might as well put advertisements in the media inviting it.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2006
At last, during the Mahajan crisis, pesky reporters met their match. Vignettes from the 24 hour coverage
BY ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/01/2006
Brinda Karat, Baba Ramdev, NDTV and the politics of family in investigative
Journalism
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/01/2006
If you’re experiencing a sense of deja vu, pity Mrs Sonia Gandhi. She had to answer almost identical questions from the two øømost respected TV journalist(s) …
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/08/2005
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/07/2005
True, the media has to behave with a sense of social responsibility in covering the Ayodhya temple attack. But it should not mislead viewers.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/01/2005
Three malayalam channels were reporting on the tsunami developments in such a hysterical manner as to whip up a scare wave which had people in the entire area from Thiruvananthapuram to Chavakkad on the run
Has bad taste swamped TV news??
BY IANS| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/12/2004 ?
Do these incidents signify the death of privacy and the triumph of bad taste?
Electronic media’s parallel democracy
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/10/2004
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/09/2004
What should have been a family affair was laid bare at prime time, for the country to witness
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/08/2004
Back home, one wished some of our channels were allowed to cover the execution live. At least, motion pictures couldn’t have done more damage to the viewers’ sensitivity than what creative efforts to compensate for the absence of footage, did.
BY mannika| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/01/2003
The interview was a classic example of the triumph of headline hunting over quality; of bias over balance.
Letter to The Hoot: What is Togadia doing on TV?
BY gupta| IN OPINION |30/12/2002
What kicks do the broadcast journalists derive by helping men like Togadia reach out to people?
