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‘Sanatan’ campaigns to Modi posters: Meet TV media’s ‘CJP rebel’

For several days, ANI and multiple television channels ran with a storyline that a rebellion had broken out inside the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP).

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‘Archetypal journalist’ Rahul Shivshankar to take CNN-News18 to new heights

Zakka Jacob will step away from his position as Managing Editor of CNN-News18. Rahul Shivshankar of ‘Mr McAdams’ fame will lead things at the channel, assuming the position of Editorial Affairs Director, according to an internal email sent to Network 18 employees.

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New details on CBI’s ‘clean chit’ to Rhea Chakraborty – but will she ever get an apology?

If you’ve logged onto X this morning, you’d be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu.

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TV Newsance 312: Kalli vs NDTV and Navika loves Ranveer

The world of Indian news podcasts just got weird – gush-fests, rival rants, and spiritual TRP boosters.

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Delhi court orders probe against Navika Kumar in defamation case by Arnab firm

A Delhi court has directed the police to investigate Times Now Group editor-in-chief Navika Kumar in connection with a defamation case filed by Arnab Goswami’s ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, Bar and Bench reported.

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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.

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TV Newsance 297: Pakistan destroyed – India deploys its loudest weapons (fired daily at 9 PM)

After the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, the country needed calm, clarity, and accountability. Instead, Indian TV news launched its favourite counter-offensive – ballistic anchors. Gaurav Arya, Navika Kumar, Arnab Goswami and others suited up for war… not against terrorists, but against basic decency, logic, and journalism.

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After media’s ‘garba jihad’ bogey, Hindi newspaper’s garba event ‘only for Sanatani Hindus’

Over the past few years, a section of the mainstream media has been amplifying the bogey of “garba jihad” every Navratri – the Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men are entering garba pandals to lure Hindu women into an Islamist trap.

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Guess who just won the Olympic Gold Medal for mindless questioning

Shooter Manu Bhaker’s two bronze medals in the Paris Olympics, ending India’s 12-year medal drought in shooting, should have piqued interest in her athletic journey. But during an interview for digital portal The New India, journalist Rohan Dua could not resist asking her “trivial and awkward” questions, attempting to link…

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‘Breach of privilege’: Questions loom over ‘unauthorised’ parliament videos shared by Navika Kumar

On July 3, Times Now chief Navika Kumar tweeted four videos of Lok Sabha proceedings on her X account. But the source of her videos has come under cloud with Congress MP R Sudha writing to Speaker Om Birla seeking a probe.

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A massive ‘sex abuse’ case hits a general election, but primetime doesn’t see it as news

India’s Lok Sabha polls have been hit by horrifying allegations of sexual abuse against one of the candidates in the fray in Karnataka.

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In run-up to LS polls on TV, 52% primetime segments against Oppn, around 1% on jobs, education

Indian democracy is at a critical juncture, with the world’s largest elections underway, and misinformation rampant. While the country’s press freedom ranking has slipped to 161 and Indian democracy has been categorised as an “electoral autocracy” in the latest V-Dem report, is the media making voters aware of key issues,…

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Amid polls, Cong leaders snub INDIA bloc ban to give exclusive interviews to ‘boycotted’ anchors

Nearly a month after the opposition’s Congress-led INDIA alliance “blacklisted” 14 anchors for their alleged “hateful” debates and anti-opposition narratives — two top leaders of the Congress have given “exclusive” interviews to two of these anchors.

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Year after ‘Garba jihad’ bogey, NBDSA tells Times Now Navbharat to take down Navika show episode

Times Now Navbharat has been told to take down an episode of Navika Kumar’s primetime show Sawal Public Ka for violating guidelines aimed at preventing a communal colour in reportage on crime and riots.

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How INDIA selected 14 anchors to boycott: Review of anchors’ social media, hate on debates

In the run-up to the opposition INDIA alliance’s blacklisting of 14 TV news anchors last week, almost all the members of the 26-party bloc’s coordination committee narrowed down on names of “partisan” anchors ahead of a joint discussion.

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2 months after Times Now exit, Rahul Shivshankar set to join Network18

Over two months after he left Times Now as the chief editor, Rahul Shivshankar is now set to join Network18 as a consulting editor.

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Anjana lauded for bulldozer reportage, Sudhir ‘maverick’: All about ENBA Awards

It was another pinnacle of on-ground reporting. Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap atop a bulldozer eulogised the “crackdown on illegal construction”, mostly belonging to Muslims, in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri in April last year. Days before her “historic reportage” on the then BJP-led Delhi municipal body’s “bulldozer action”, the area had witnessed…

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TV Newsance 223: Chandrayaan-3: A giant leap for Indian science and ‘star’ anchors

This week, India wrote history with Chandrayaan-3’s successful Moon landing. The country became the first to arrive on the south pole, and only the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. As millions of Indians celebrated this feat and the world looked at India’s scientific community, our usual…

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Before viral video, little primetime space for Manipur, few ground reports by big anchors

Cornered by Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi on the lack of debates on Manipur until the emergence of a viral video, Times Now chief editor Navika Kumar on Wednesday denied the allegation and also promised to send her “links” of the channel’s coverage.

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Bureaucrat Ashish Kundra’s new book ‘A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change’ launched in New Delhi

Author, IAS officer, and senior bureaucrat Ashish Kundra's new book on the history of Northeast India and its people, ‘A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change’, was released on April 21, 2023, at an event in New Delhi. The book was launched in the presence of Kiren Rijiju- Union Minister of…

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A wedding and an NYT oped spotlight India’s contradictory ideas on press freedom

Democracy is a chair with four legs – legislature, executive, judiciary and media. For the chair to keep its balance, each leg must maintain a certain distance from the other. If one leg wobbles, it’s enough to bring down whoever’s sitting on the chair.

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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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After ABVP poster, 3 channels falsely accuse a Newslaundry reporter of JNU stone-pelting

A day after an attempted screening of the BBC documentary on the JNU campus was followed by a power cut, stone-pelting, and a war of words between Left-affiliated student outfits and the ABVP, certain media channels amplified a poster released by a member of the latter, blaming 16 people for…

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‘Shaheen Bagh’, ‘land jihad’: Another year, another ‘eviction’, but TV media reads the same script

Another year, another probable encroachment drive. But sections of TV media were back with the same headlines featuring Shaheen Bagh – skipping the tough questions about rehabilitation to orbit around a 2019 protest against the controversial citizenship law.

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TV Newsance 195: Covid in China and Bharat Jodo Yatra as a ‘superspreader’

The big news of the week is the rapid spread of Covid in China. We look at China’s zero-Covid policy, why it failed and what’s really happening in our neighbouring country with the big Omicron spike. Should India be worried? Meanwhile, Arnab Goswami, Navika Kumar and the usual suspects on…

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