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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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India Today Group really is a ‘natural home’ for Sudhir Chaudhary

In a memo to the India Today Group staff, vice chairperson Kalli Purie excitedly introduced Sudhir Chaudhary as their new consulting editor. We are certain the newsroom was just as excited. As the employees were reminded by their boss, Chaudhary brings the experience and fanbase of his last show, DNA…

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'The natural home for a household name': Sudhir Chaudhary to join Aaj Tak as consulting editor

Ten days after his resignation from Zee was accepted, Sudhir Chaudhary has been announced to join Aaj Tak as consulting editor.

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Zubair insulted ‘respected religious leader’ Bajrang Muni's followers: UP police argue in Supreme Court

Mohammed Zubair got interim bail from the Supreme Court on Friday, but the Alt News cofounder will stay in custody. In a separate case, the court provided Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan protection from coercive police action.

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Doctored Rahul Gandhi video | TV anchor moves Supreme Court for protection

Second oral mentioning in the case related to telecast of allegedly doctored video of Rahul Gandhi

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'Misleading' Rahul Gandhi video | Raipur police accuse Uttar Pradesh police of obstructing arrest of news anchor Rohit Ranjan

A case was registered against Rohit Ranjan for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups and outraging religious feelings of people based on the complaint of Congress MLA Devendra Yadav, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said.

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Zee News anchor held for airing misleading clip of Rahul Gandhi

Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan has been detained over a misleading broadcast, which alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had referred to the Udaipur killing accused as children.

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Why did Sudhir Chaudhary leave Zee?

There’s hardly a primetime show on Indian news TV that is not identified with its host. “Shouty” to “communal”, it’s not hard to predict how a show will tackle a subject if you know the host. So, it’s quite surprising for the news industry that one of the country’s “most…

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Zee News apologises for linking Rahul Gandhi's unrelated remarks to Udaipur killing

Zee News issued an apology on Saturday after the TV news channel misleadingly aired unrelated remarks by Rahul Gandhi as his statement on the Udaipur killing.

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After a decade, Sudhir Chaudhary 'moving on' from Zee Media

Zee News editor in chief and CEO Sudhir Chaudhary has resigned from his position and will be "moving on" from Zee Media.

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Zubair’s arrest: Five cases that illustrate Alt News cofounder's role in flagging hate speech online

On June 7, Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair posted the following on Twitter, after the social media platform sent him multiple emails about requests it had received from the police on Zubair’s tweets “violating” the law.

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2002 Gujarat riots | Supreme Court notes Sudhir Chaudhary's statement about his purported interview with Narendra Modi

It also took note of the fact that Mr. Chaudhary has shown his inability to elaborate the same as he has not been able to recollect the exact sequence of events after a span of nine years

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Take down ‘sensationalist’ shows on Umar Khalid, regulator tells Zee, India TV, Aaj Tak

The National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has objected to how some TV news channels have covered student leader Umar Khalid’s prosecution for alleged offences related to the 2020 Delhi communal carnage.

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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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With KBC promo, Sony trolls channels’ claims about GPS chip in Rs 2,000 notes

The iconic take on demonetisation by Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Aaj Tak's Sweta Singh was brought back to public memory over the weekend, thanks to Amitabh Bachchan and a tweet by Sony TV.

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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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On Zee News show that drew NBDSA flak, visuals of JNU as Shehla Rashid's father alleged terror funding

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has said that a Zee News show on JNU scholar Shehla Rashid was not objective or impartial and showed only one side of the story, Live Law reported. It directed the channel to remove the video from their website, YouTube channel and other…

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Morning Digest | Sri Lankan President Gotabaya revokes state of Emergency; India condemns killing of civilians in Ukraine’s Bucha, and more

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NBDSA asks Zee News to take down video

Activist Shehla Rashid said Zee News carried wild allegations levelled by her father, but had not reached out to her for a response

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Morning Show Ep 20 ft Gorakhpur Univ students: Yogi vs Akhilesh, Zee News vs NDTV

In this episode, Team Newslaundry settles down for a fun chat on the UP assembly election with the students of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University.

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Lies, false equivalence, diversions, ad hominem attacks: That’s TV media’s spin on JNU violence

If nothing, a section of the Indian TV media should be awarded for its consistency. Issues, and the news cycles around it, come and go but the medium’s tropes and persistence to spin narratives remain the same.

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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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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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