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TV Newsance 172: Gyanvapi ka Sach, from Param Bhakts on TV news

Is it a Shivling or a fountain? This entire week on TV news was spent debating this question pertaining to the Gyanvapi mosque. Anchors turned kar sevaks and gave us minute details about a leaked report on a survey conducted at the mosque. We had experts like Amish Tripathi on…

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‘News beats noise’: On front page of Hindustan Times, CNN-News18 announces it’s trumped Times Now

News channel CNN News18 has beat Times Now and become the “No. 1 English general news channel”. Not our words, that’s what CNN-News18 claimed in a front-page ad today in the Delhi edition of Hindustan Times. It’s apparently a triumph of “news” over “noise”.

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‘Can’t even describe it’: Times Now journalist allegedly ‘assaulted’ by hospital guards in Bhopal

A journalist associated with Times Now was allegedly assaulted by hospital security on Tuesday in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. In a video which went viral on social media, Govind Gurjar claimed he was beaten up at Bansal hospital.

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UK media notes optics, Johnson’s JCB connect as his bulldozer visuals draw flak

As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson perched on a bulldozer during his visit to a JCB factory in Gujarat, the visuals came in for criticism on Twitter, and the British media took note of the optics – amid outrage over demolitions ostensibly targeting Muslims in India.

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UP mahant’s rape threat: Republic, ABP, Aaj Tak skip it for Ukraine, Pak and azaan

A day after a video of a mahant threatening to abduct and rape Muslim women outside a mosque in Khairabad went viral, the National Commission for Women wrote to the UP DGP seeking action on Friday. But for a large section of the TV news media, it remained business as…

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Je suis Mr McAdams: Rahul Shivshankar scolds the wrong panelist before realising his mistake

Rahul Shivshankar's debate on Times Now last night was marked by lots of finger-wagging, shouting, berating and, sadly, a case of mistaken identity.

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How Republic passed off a muddle of contradictions as ‘news’ about Disha Salian’s death

The front page of the Indian Express had a short piece yesterday on how after questioning actor Rhea Chakraborty for almost 18 hours, the Enforcement Directorate did not find “any substantial transfers” to her from the bank account of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

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#AssemblyPolls2019: Quick updates on numbers and TV news witticism

The results of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be announced today. More than 10 crore voters were on the electoral rolls to elect 378 MLAs in the two states — 90 in Haryana and 288 in Maharashtra. Earlier this week, our ground reporters in both states noted…

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TV Newsance Episode 16: Modi Ki Baat, Modi Ke Saath

There’s news, there’s sense and there’s nuisance. This show is all about that last bit. Kyunki thoda pagalpan bhi zaroori hai. This week, Narendra Modi met Prasoon Joshi and it got Rahul Shivshankar of Times Now a little too excited. Shivshankar was bowled over by how ‘unprecedented’, ‘unscripted’ and amazing…

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Top 12 fake news stories circulated by mainstream media in 2017

2017 will go down as another year that saw a steady decline of trust and confidence in the media. It was a year when mainstream media gave tough competition to social media in originating and circulating fake news.

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Why Pappu Can’t Sing

“Congress Party ko desh se nikalo” (Make the Congress Party leave India) – are the words Rahul Gandhi is heard saying in a video spoofing his All India Congress Committee speech on January 17, 2014. Rohit Iyengar, a young film student in the United States of Americacreated the spoof video…

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Operation Sting

Let’s face it – sting operations are to news what nudity is to cinema. So it is hardly a surprise that in these times when television news is a fiercely frantic TRP battle, news channels sting with alarming frequency and unbridled zest. Many sting ops, expectedly, are plain ridiculous and…

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