TV Newsance 2025 rewind | BTS bloopers, favourite snippets and Roenka awards prep It’s the end of the year, and what a year it has been for the #TVNewsance team! Newslaundry · Dec 27, 2025
TV Newsance 326 | A very curly tale, or how taxpayers’ money was used for govt PR Food, travel, vlogs… and now government promotion? This episode of TV Newsance breaks down how Curly Tales became the face of a ₹6 crore Doordarshan documentary promoting the Modi government — and how the same content quietly appeared on private, monetised YouTube channels. Newslaundry · Dec 20, 2025
TV Newsance 325 | Indigo delays, primetime 'dissent' and Vande Mataram marathon This week on TV Newsance, our primetime poets turned into WhatsApp shayari machines, dropping couplets that would make even Ghalib file a noise complaint. But the real twist wasn’t their poetry – it was their sudden ability to question power once Indigo messed up their flights. A disruption close to… Newslaundry · Dec 13, 2025
TV Newsance 323 | Distraction Files: India is choking. But TV news is distracting On this week’s TV Newsance, while India observed Constitution Day, our beloved Godijeevis did what they do best — lose themselves in Ram Mandir flag-hoisting visuals. Hours of primetime were spent decoding Prime Minister Modi’s “body language”, “divine emotions”, and “historic hand gestures”… all while Delhi gasped through its worst… Newslaundry · Nov 29, 2025
TV Newsance 322 | How TV ‘analysed’ Umar Nabi: Beard, English, chair = terror? Indian TV news has turned the Umar Nabi terror case into a circus — with anchors analysing his beard, body language, English, hairstyle and even how he swivels in a chair. This episode explains how the Indian media uses pseudoscience and profiling to shape public perception. Newslaundry · Nov 22, 2025
TV Newsance 321: Delhi blast and how media lost the plot This week on TV Newsance, we break down the Delhi bomb blast tragedy that claimed 13 lives and injured dozens near the Red Fort, one of the busiest, most crowded pockets of Old Delhi. Newslaundry reporters hit the ground an hour later to talk to eyewitnesses and assess the situation… Newslaundry · Nov 15, 2025
TV Newsance 320: Bihar elections turn into a meme fest On this week’s episode of TV Newsance, we dive into the bizarre, the viral, and the downright baffling side of political news in India. Newslaundry · Nov 8, 2025
TV Newsance 319: Bihar dramebaazi and Yamuna PR wash This week on TV Newsance, the drama shifts from Delhi’s ghats to Bihar’s gullies, and the Godi anchors are outdoing themselves yet again! Newslaundry · Nov 1, 2025
TV Newsance 318: When Delhi choked, Godi Media celebrated This week on TV Newsance, Sudhir Chaudhary makes a “revelation” that Newslaundry has been talking about for years – how Indian TV news channels are controlled by political powers and how TRP manipulation has destroyed journalism. Newslaundry · Oct 25, 2025
TV Newsance 317 Diwali Special: Godi hai toh mumkin hai, NDTV’s Adani makeover, Taliban flip This week on TV Newsance, we wish you a very Happy Diwali! And yes, we’ve brought you a very special Diwali gift – a subscription offer that helps keep journalism free and fearless. Just click here. Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2025
TV Newsance 316: Poison in cough syrup, satsang on primetime This week on TV Newsance, we talk about the most horrifying tragedy in Madhya Pradesh, where over 20 children died due to a poisonous cough syrup. A medicine to cure cough contained an alarming amount of a chemical used in brake fluid and antifreeze. Newslaundry · Oct 11, 2025
TV Newsance Rewind: Manisha tracks down woman in Modi’s PM Awas Yojana ad This week on TV Newsance, let’s revisit the time when Manisha went beyond the studio, from exposing Godi Media to uncovering the truth behind the Modi government’s claim of providing housing to 24 lakh people. Newslaundry · Oct 4, 2025
TV Newsance 315: Amit Shah reveals why PM Modi is great. Truly non-biological? This week, Amit Shah gave interviews to Aaj Tak, NDTV, and CNN News18 – and the questions were copy-paste. From “BFF with Modi” to “success formula,” anchors repeated the same lines like parrots. Journalism or PR exercise? Newslaundry · Sep 27, 2025
TV Newsance 314: Modiji’s 75th birthday bash special, #MyModiStory and Godi Bhakti Olympics This week on TV Newsance, Indian news channels went extra crazy for Prime Minister Modi’s 75th birthday; there was 10x more sucking up than usual. Besides Navika, Sushant, Sudhir, and our usual suspects, billionaires, actors, A-listers, sportsmen all dived in to wish Modiji a happy birthday. Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2025
Newslaundry · Sep 13, 2025 TV Newsance Live: What’s happening with the Gen-Z protest in Nepal? In this episode of TV Newsance, Manisha unpacks the Gen-Z protests in Nepal that shook the country’s political system and even led to the fall of their Prime Minister. But what’s equally telling is how Indian TV news channels are framing (or rather, misframing) this entire movement. Expect the usual…
Newslaundry · Sep 6, 2025 TV Newsance 313: What happened to India’s No. 1 China hater? This week on TV Newsance, we look at Palki Sharma’s changing views on China. From calling Covid the “Wuhan Virus” and predicting China’s collapse, to praising Chinese robots and museums at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit – what happened to India’s “China basher No. 1”?
Newslaundry · Aug 23, 2025 TV Newsance 311: Amit Shah vs Rahul Gandhi and anchors’ big lie on ‘vote chori’ This week, a lot went down on TV news. From the opposition tearing up Amit Shah’s bills in Parliament, to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta being attacked at an event. Thankfully, anchors didn’t over-sensationalise this assault. But remember how they covered the attack on former CM, Arvind Kejriwal, 10 years ago?…
Newslaundry · Aug 9, 2025 TV Newsance 309: Uttarkashi disaster, Trump dhokhaa and Godi media’s MIGA magic This week on TV Newsance, Navika Kumar and Smriti Irani gave us a saas-bahu masterclass – replete with sly taunts, spicy metaphors, and ticker shade.
Newslaundry · Aug 2, 2025 TV Newsance 308: Godi media dumps Trump, return of Media Maulana This week on TV Newsance, our usual suspects did a full u-turn on Donald Trump.
Newslaundry · Jul 26, 2025 TV Newsance 307: Dhexit Dhamaka, Modiji’s monologue and the murder no one covered This week on TV Newsance, we decode the big “Dhexit Dhamaka” – Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden resignation. Officially, it was for “health reasons”. Unofficially? Anchors had a buffet of wild theories, from Modi-Dhankar tensions to Opposition dosti.
Newslaundry · Jul 19, 2025 TV Newsance 306: Labubu, Love Jihad & Bihar’s lost voter list This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…
Newslaundry · Jul 12, 2025 TV Newsance 305: Sudhir wants unity, Anjana talks jobs – what’s going on in Godi land? This week on TV Newsance, Godi anchors suddenly discovered the value of unity, real issues, and development. Why? Because for once, the violence wasn’t communal… yet.
Newslaundry · Jul 5, 2025 TV Newsance 304: Anchors add spin to bland diplomacy and the Kanwar Yatra outrage This week on TV Newsance, we look at how godi media manufactured two kinds of patriotism – one global, one hyper-local – both equally absurd.
Newslaundry · Jun 28, 2025 TV Newsance Rewind: Ads, anchors and Azaadi ka Amrit Mahotsav This week on TV Newsance, we are reunited with our old friends – Gareebdas and Lakkhu – as we take a trip down the memory lane.
Newslaundry · Jun 7, 2025 TV Newsance Rewind: Best of news interviews This week on TV Newsance, we take a trip down memory lane. We look back to 2018 — back when Navika tried to ask tough questions to Yogi Adityanath on women’s safety in Uttar Pradesh. Then we move on to the 2023 promotions of the iconic movie — The Vaccine…