This week on TV Newsance, primetime TV delivered a full-on masala film: action, drama, melodrama, and, of course, nationalism, served with a side of hypocrisy! What makes it worse is that all of this is happening in the Press Freedom Month.
Arnab Goswami, in a shocking discovery, realised that saying “shut up” on TV is rude. Yes, that Arnab. The same man whose studio has survived on shouting, interrupting, demonising, and occasionally combusting on air.
Then came Sudhir Chaudhary with his latest gyaan: save cooking fuel, and you may save yourself from obesity. Why? Because the prime minister has asked citizens to save fuel, carpool, work from home, and not buy gold to protect India’s resources.
We also look at how TV anchors celebrated Modi’s “two-car convoy masterstroke”, how the same Modi who now says don’t buy gold had mocked a similar argument 13 years ago, and how government spending magically becomes “sacrifice” only when citizens are asked to cut back.
And finally, Rubika Liyaquat brought the rona-dhona, because what is primetime without a little emotional background music?
Also watch:
1. The ads newspapers print with your tax money
2. India after 12 years of Modi: rupee, poverty, unemployment, inequality and more
3. How the government spends the money it asks citizens to “save”
4. TV anchors celebrating Modi’s “two-car convoy” as a masterstroke
5. Modi on gold: 2013 vs 2026
6. A “very short” list of BJP ministers who have said the most bizarre and unscientific things
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