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What’s common between juice, weddings, QR codes? Jihad, if you watch enough TV

Gather around. It’s primetime, where nuance goes to die. Planning a wedding? Cue “Mehandi Jihad”. Scanning a QR code? “QR Jihad”. Down with the flu? “Virus Jihad”. Craving mango juice? “Juice Jihad”. A train derails? “Rail Jihad”.

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NBDSA fines Zee Rs 2 lakh for fake ‘namaz jam’ and transphobic videos

Zee News and its sister channel, Zee Telugu, have been penalised a combined Rs 2 lakh by the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) for separate broadcasts that violated core journalistic ethics in communal reporting and the portrayal of the LGBTQ+ community.

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5 channels spun NCERT textbook poem into ‘love jihad’ plot. Watchdog orders takedown

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has issued an order directing five news channels to take down eight shows that accused an NCERT textbook of a ‘love jihad’ conspiracy.

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Ekta Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty and a queue of netas: The great suck-up at Baba Bageshwar's yatra

Dhirendra Shastri’s “Sanatan Hindu Ekta Padyatra,” which began from Delhi on November 7 and ended in Vrindavan on November 16, carried the usual packaging of unity, devotion, purity, and cultural reaffirmation. It demanded a clean Yamuna river and a minor phenomenon called “Hindu Rashtra,” nothing too significant.

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‘Mehendi jihad’, ‘garba jihad’: News TV’s endless jihad playbook faces another rebuke

Every festive season, primetime TV news finds a new communal bogey to peddle – from “garba jihad” to “love jihad”. This year was no different.

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‘Thumbnails should conform to actual discussion’: NBDSA on Times Now Navbharat’s Shimla mosque coverage

Asking Times Now Navbharat to edit a thumbnail, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has decided to issue an advisory to all broadcasters to ensure that tickers and thumbnails conform to the actual version of the discussion.

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Following ECI complaint, NBDSA issues warning to News18 India for communal tone in Ram Navami coverage

Acting on a complaint forwarded by the Election Commission of India, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority issued a warning to News18 India for giving a communal colour to a programme on comments made by various political leaders on the occasion of Ram Navami last year.

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‘Don’t mix facts with opinion’: NBDSA tells News18 Rajasthan to delete Tirupati laddu video

The News Broadcasters and Digital Standards Authority has ordered News18 Rajasthan to delete a video on the Tirupati laddu controversy which was aired in September last year. The video featured an interview with self-styled spiritual leader Swami Dipankar and had seemed to suggest in its headline that the presence of…

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NBDSA asks Aaj Tak, India Today to edit 3 Sudhir Chaudhary shows on same-sex marriage

The News Broadcasters and Digital Standards Authority has told Aaj Tak and India Today to remove sections from three shows aired in April 2023. All of these featured anchor Sudhir Chaudhary raising questions around same-sex marriage.

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NBDSA tells News18 India to edit debate on Kejriwal’s arrest

The News Broadcasters and Digital Standards Authority found that a News18 India debate hosted by anchor Rubika Liyaquat violated the code on reporting court proceedings and the principle of neutrality.

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‘Divisive, promoted superstition’: NBDSA tells News18 India to take down Bageshwar Baba interview

The News Broadcasters and Digital Association has found a News18 India interview with self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri, popularly known as Bageshwar Baba, as violative of its code of ethics and advisories on religious harmony and superstition.

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‘We are watching’: How citizen-led initiatives safeguard democracy, electoral process

A string of violations of the model code of conduct during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls were reported to the election commission by the Indian Civil Liberties Union, a network of lawyers, students and activists. This time, the organisation is gearing to relaunch its #WeAreWatching project to create awareness about…

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NBDSA takes action against three TV news channels for violating guidelines on communal issues

NBDSA penalizes TV news channels for violating Code of Ethics by spreading communal issues, imposes fines and removal of videos.

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Year after ‘Garba jihad’ bogey, NBDSA tells Times Now Navbharat to take down Navika show episode

Times Now Navbharat has been told to take down an episode of Navika Kumar’s primetime show Sawal Public Ka for violating guidelines aimed at preventing a communal colour in reportage on crime and riots.

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Sting operations by media must be ‘healthy’: Karnataka High Court

Observing that sting operations by the media should be “heathy” by adhering to norms, the High Court of Karnataka has said that all such operations in the future should be as per the guidelines issued by the News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) and the Press Council of India

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Haryana violence: Baghel skips News18 event over ‘communal coverage’

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has refused to attend a Network 18 conclave over News18 India’s coverage of the Haryana communal violence, according to sources in the CM’s office.

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Gendered nomenclatures, dog whistles and everything else Sudhir got wrong about same-sex marriage

If there had to be an exemplar for heterosexual bias in the language around LGBTQI issues on primetime television, it could be a segment about the Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage on Sudhir Chaudhary’s show Black and White on Aaj Tak.

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TV Newsance 204: Uncles Arnab and Aman Chopra on primetime news

This week, Abhinandan is back to hosting duties in Manisha’s absence to bring you the worst of the worst from the world of TV news.

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Delhi HC directs Shehla Rashid to file response to affidavit filed by NBDSA

The Delhi High court judge on Thursday asked former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid to file a response to the affidavit filed by the News Broadcaster and Digital Standard Authority (NBDSA). Read further on Dynamite News:

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NBDSA tells Zee to run tickers on selective data, Times Now to take down ‘Pak slogan’ telecast

Noting that a Zee News broadcast on population growth had “disproportionately focused only on one community, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has asked the channel to air the authority’s observations through 24 hourly tickers between March 6 and March 7.

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‘Vilified entire Muslim community’: NBDSA issues orders against 5 shows by News18’s Aman Chopra

In his show last October, News18 India’s Aman Chopra “targeted, vilified and castigated the entire Muslim community for the actions of a few miscreants” and gave an incident a “communal tilt”.

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Journalist body calls for Media Council to replace ‘toothless’ Press Council and NBDSA

A statement issued yesterday by the Delhi Union of Journalists said a Media Council needs to be set up on a priority basis to replace “the toothless Press Council and the NBDSA which more than often is a prisoner of indecision.”

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‘Violative of principles of fairness, good taste’: News18 India fined Rs 50,000 for show on hijab ban

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on News18 India and directed the channel to take down a show by anchor Aman Chopra on Karnataka’s hijab ban.

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‘Targeting of a community’: Regulator pulls up News18 India over ‘thook jihad’ show

Noting that a News18 India broadcast on “thook jihad” last year amounted to “targeting of a particular community”, the news broadcasting and digital standards authority has asked the network to take down the show within seven days.

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Regulator tells Zee News to take down show on Muslim population

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has directed Zee News to take down a show – telecast in June last year – over Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq’s remarks against the proposed two-child policy. The NBDSA found the show to have an “agenda”, “lacking any facts or data”,…

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