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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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TV Newsance 181: Ranveer Singh’s ‘bum’ makes it to primetime

Believe it or not, Ranveer Singh’s nude shoot made it to primetime TV news discussion this week. Sudhir Chaudhary, now on Aaj Tak, wondered about the actor’s majboori, while giving us gyaan on sanskaar. We also catch him repeating his show theme from Zee News: in the span of a…

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TV Newsance 180: All the wrong questions on TV news

This week, we look at how the humble question mark is misused on TV news. TV news channels can get away with smear campaigns, polarising debates, and out and out hate news by simply placing a question mark before factless assertions. For example, Will India become a ‘Muslim Rashtra’ in…

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TV Newsance 179: India Today’s balancing act, cute vs angry lion & Sri Lanka crisis

With the India Today Group getting a new star anchor, we look at all the golden opportunities the hiring offers India’s “sabse tez” channel – khoob jamega rang jab mil jayenge teen yaar, Sudhir, Shweta aur nanochip.

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TV Newsance 178: Kaali poster, Mahua Moitra’s comments and farewell to Sudhir

It’s the season of outrage, and TV news anchors can't have enough of it! They are angry, hurt and offended – but for what? Not unemployment, or inflation or gas prices going up; from Nupur Sharma to now Mahua Moitra, hurt sentiments continue to rule the airwaves.

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TV Newsance 175: Friday violence, studio-veers and vilification of Umar Khalid

People mainly avoid news due to repetitiveness, a lack of trust and the sense of powerlessness it triggers, according to the Reuters Digital News Report 2022. But what could exemplify the broken record more than the apocalyptic world of Indian TV news?

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TV Newsance 173: KCR sponsors NDTV 'feature', Modi and Yogi enjoy free publicity on ABP

This week we shift gears to bring you a special episode breaking down what ad-funded programming looks like on TV news and what different forms this monster has taken in the Indian news ecosphere.

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TV Newsance: 10 Years of Hate News Ki Dhulai

This week, Newslaundry completed a decade of media critique and ad-free journalism! That’s 10 years of TV news ki dhulai, whether hate or tamasha, only with your support. And that makes for a very special snippet of TV Newsance this week, featuring Abhinandan and Yusra.

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10 years in 10 minutes: A look at Newslaundry’s journey

From the good old days of Clothesline, Dhobi Ghat and Cleaners to our current line-up of TV Newsance, Sansad Watch and Tippani, we take you on a walk down memory lane, tracing our journey and milestones as Newslaundry completes a decade.

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TV Newsance Episode 20: The most unbiased anchor

There’s news, there’s sense and there’s nuisance. This show is all about that last bit. Kyunki thoda pagalpan bhi zaroori hai. In this episode of TV Newsance, we look at India Today’s new news format where they invite party spokespersons as anchors. We think it’s a great idea and a natural…

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