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TV Newsance rewind: Best and worst of Indian media’s international reportage

In this episode of TV Newsance, we have brought you a blast from the past as we take a look at some of the best and the worst of our usual suspects’ attempts at covering international events — as India moves towards becoming the ‘Vishwaguru’.

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Newsance rewind: Gems of Kangana Ranaut

In this episode of TV Newsance, we have brought you a blast from the past – a special ode to Kangana Ranaut, the actor and long-time purported BJP activist who finally forayed into electoral politics.

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TV Newsance 255: YouTubers vs TV media, people of Varanasi weigh up

This week, we bring you TV Newsance from ground zero in Varanasi. In this special episode, we found a live debate being held by our usual suspect, News18’s Amish Devgan, on the ghats of the ancient city.

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TV Newsance 253: A meeting with News18’s Bhaiyaji, News24’s Rajeev Ranjan in Lucknow

This week, we bring you TV Newsance from ground zero. In this special episode, we meet locals and TV journalists on the field at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

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TV Newsance 231: Rubika’s adventures in Israel, Suresh Chavhanke’s latest conspiracy

Manisha is back this week to take a look at what is going on in the crazy world of TV news.

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TV Newsance 224: ENBA Awards, OCCRP’s report on Adani and NDTV’s defence pitch

This week was celebratory for India Today as 111 awards were heaped on the group at the ENBA Awards – 109 if you listen to Anjana. To our bemusement, the usual suspect at TV Newsance, Sudhir Chaudhary, won the ‘Maverick of The Year’ award. Anjana Om Kashyap was awarded for…

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A hate-laden speech and murder: Why did Chetan Singh vanish from the news cycle?

July 31, 2023. That is a date we need to remember. What happened that day has already been relegated to the inside pages of most newspapers and has vanished altogether from our shouty TV channels. They are currently obsessing over the violence on the doorstep of India’s national capital, and…

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Hafta letters: Gandhi and celibacy, battling propaganda, Uniform Civil Code

Great work, Newslaundry, and a special shoutout to Manisha for watching painful Godi media and making TV Newsance. I would love to hear the panel’s views on Gandhi’s celibacy experiments, particularly the controversial aspect of him sleeping in the same room as his grand niece, sometimes naked, as part of…

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TV Newsance 216: Modi and Godi media’s trip to the US

This week we learned that Rahul Shivshankar, or RSS, is tragically leaving Times Now for new pastures. We look back at some of his best, worst and most memorable moments.

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TV Newsance 213: Modi inaugurates Parliament, TV news’ anti-wrestlers toolkit

Following a week’s break, TV Newsance is back with the worst of the worst on television news.

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TV Newsance 205: Who’s the real Lutyens Gang? Outrage over Rahul Gandhi’s speech in UK

This week on TV Newsance, we found the card that Sudhir Chaudhary encashes every night on his primetime show. As two Indian movies won big at the Oscars this week, none of which were called Kashmir Files, poor Vivek Agnihotri had to settle forTimes Now hashtag. Meanwhile, many top BJP…

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TV Newsance 201: Save Adani Campaign, brought to you by primetime stars on TV News

What do Mia Khalifa, Hindenburg and Greta Thunberg have in common? Is the opposition falling for a trap set up by anti-nationals to destroy the Indian economy? Is the Adani crisis over?

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TV Newsance 200: #RTVToadies makes a comeback

RTV Toadies makes a comeback. The three judges are back with a new set of tasks. What does it take to be a primetime toady? Watch to find out. We also look at why we started TV Newsance and our journey so far. TV news is one of the most…

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TV Newsance 198: When Gautam Adani met Rajat Sharma and Kashmir Files drama

Why do billionaires buy media? This week, we look at the age-old tradition of rich men and women buying and investing in the media to gain influence – Gautam Adani is only the most recent of rich Indian industrialists to have a channel of his own. Over the past few…

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TV Newsance: Ramnath Roenka Awards 2022 are here to recognise the worst of TV journalism

It’s that time of the year again, when we look back and wonder at the state of television news and recognise the best efforts behind lowering the standards of TV news in India.

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Newsance 194: India-China border clash and why it’s all Nehru's fault

TV Newsance is back after a break! And guess what, nothing much has changed when it comes to the world of TV news. The big news of the week was the clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, and we saw news anchors tripping over each other…

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TV Newsance 193: Mehrauli murder case and its sansani reporting

While the Mehrauli murder case gripped the airwaves, ridiculous conspiracy theories and theatrics were in full supply as channels tried to one-up each other. Rubika had a forensics team help her understand the case even as Arnab was busy assisting the investigators himself. Reporters scoured the jungle for masala while…

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TV Newsance 192: Finding nuclear war in a lunar eclipse as Himachal prepares for polls

TV Newsance is back, and this week we analyse TV9’s loony show on the lunar eclipse, which the channel thought could be a sign of impending doom with inputs from defence experts. Chitra Tripathi, back to Aaj Tak from her brief spell at ABP, also hinted at a dangal in…

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TV Newsance 191: Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Ganesh-Laxmi’ idea presents a Dharam Sankat for anchors

It was a week like any other, until it wasn’t. Post-Diwali, anchors fawned over the Supreme Leader, with multiple Modis on screens and channels discussing the secrets to his youthful rigour and spiritual strength.

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TV Newsance 190: Republic vs Times Now. Who won?

Indian news TV operates by the revenue logic of ads. And who gets how many ads is dictated by the logic of TRPs. So when BARC, the TRPs measurement agency, returned with its data earlier this year after a hiatus forced by the TRP scam, so did the barking on…

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TV Newsance 187: The Hindu-Muslim playbook exposed

This week, Anil Yadav, a former News Nation reporter in Lucknow exposed the inner workings of TV news channels, explaining how many of them function as the propaganda arm for Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath, attack the opposition and spare the BJP, and actively demonise Muslims. We review the coverage…

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TV Newsance 186: Why news anchors should leave Team India & Bollywood alone

Team India is out of Asia Cup 2022 after losing to Pakistan. The match last Sunday was turned into a war by TV news channels, and when India lost we had anchor Sudhir Chaudhary offering his expert analysis. A game of cricket with Pakistan is always high stakes, but why…

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TV Newsance 185: Jharkhand case & Supertech twin towers dhamaka on TV news

This week we look at all the TV news tamasha around the Supertech twin towers demolition in Noida. TV anchors gave us breathless coverage starting from almost two days before the actual event. They jumped in Audis and Jeeps, got into CGI helicopters and gave us countdowns to the blast.…

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TV Newsance 184: Will Adani take over NDTV?

The big news on TV news this week was about TV news! The Adani-NDTV saga was the talk of the town, but the details were hazy nearly everywhere. Who bought what from whom? What roles do Ambani, Adani and the Roys play? And what are the implications of this game…

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TV Newsance 183: Anupam Kher’s Nehru bashing on News18, injustice to Bilkis Bano

This week, we look at Network 18’s Independence Day special programme that tracked the history of India through the speeches of its prime ministers from 1947 to 2022. In a one-hour show, the host, Anupam Kher, spent about seven minutes on Jawaharlal Nehru and 15 minutes or so on Narendra…

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