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Sirens, wrong visuals, and ‘Allahu Akbar’ dog-whistles: The Godi-fication of US-Israel-Iran war

Deafening studio sirens. Recycled war footage. From defending the indefensible to peddling outright fake news, there isn't a conflict usual suspects on mainstream TV media won't exploit.

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Everyone’s won! Trump. Modi. And the politics of premature celebration

No one yet knows the terms of a trade deal that could significantly alter how India powers its economy. That has not stopped New Delhi and Washington from launching into full celebration mode.

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TV anchors slam ‘fringe’ Bajrang Dal, gush over Modi – miss the connection entirely

Christmas festivities in India have been overshadowed by acts of vandalism, intimidation, and violence by right-wing Hindutva groups this year, whether it’s in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and even Kerala. You can read our reports on such acts committed by members of the Bajrang Dal, VHP and others here…

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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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India Today’s ‘100-minute’ interview, Putin-Modi glazing, and ‘bahut strong visuals’

In a moment reminiscent of former ABP News anchor Rubika Liyaquat's epic softball question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, "Why don't you get tired? Aap thakte kyu nahi ho?" The Kremlin’s English-language mouthpiece Russia Today channel showed India Today's Executive Editor-in-Chief, Kalli Purie, asking Russian President Vladimir Putin, "We've been…

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A pollster apologises, BJP calls it proof of Rahul ‘lies’, news TV cheers

Rahul Gandhi’s allegations about voter rolls predate, and never relied on, any data from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

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Killed by Pak shelling, branded Pak terrorist on TV: Godi media kills an Indian twice

In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t…

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HC quashes Karnataka hate speech case against Rahul Shivshankar

The Karnataka High Court has quashed a hate speech case against CNN News18 consulting editor Rahul Shivshankar over his post on X about the state government’s allocation of funds for the welfare of religious minorities, Bar and Bench reported.

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‘Ban digital dirt’: Primetime anchors declare war on YouTubers

Nearly 21 months after ethnic conflict erupted in Manipur, N Biren Singh resigned as chief minister on Sunday, February 9, plunging the state into a leadership crisis. Over 250 deaths later, with thousands displaced, the strife-torn state remains on edge, and the possibility of President’s rule looms large.

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Omar Abdullah slams Rahul Shivshankar’s ‘misinformation’ on US diplomats’ Kashmir visit

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference chairperson Omar Abdullah slammed Network18 consulting editor Rahul Shivshankar for spreading “misinformation and disinformation” in connection with the US diplomats’ recent visit to Kashmir.

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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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‘Memorable meet’ with ‘boss’: TV anchors, rightwing outfit’s Suresh Chavhanke at BJP Diwali event

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Diwali Milan was graced by a string of TV anchors and officials of rightwing outfits at the party’s headquarters in Delhi on Friday. Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami, Bharat24’s Rubika Liyaquat, Aaj Tak’s Sudhir Choudhary and Network18’s Rahul Shivshankar and Aman Chopra were some of the popular…

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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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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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Rahul Shivshankar exits Times Now

Times Now chief editor Rahul Shivshankar has exited the channel.

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Times Now puts out fake news on PM Modi as the ‘biggest contender for Nobel peace prize’

Words of praise for prime minister Narendra Modi by the Nobel Prize Committee deputy leader have been widely reported as his acknowledgement that the Indian prime minister was the “biggest contender for Nobel Peace Prize”.

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Trinamool’s Saket Gokhale sends Times Now legal notice for making ‘false and malicious statements’

Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale has sent a legal notice to Times Now accusing its editor, Rahul Shivshankar, of attributing “utterly false and malicious statements” to him on a show about the Hindu-Muslim tension in Leicester, UK.

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TV Newsance 177: Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and cheering of Zubair’s arrest

This week, the news of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s beheading in Udaipur by two extremist Muslim men, Gaus Mohammad and Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari, hit headlines. One would think there was nothing to “debate” about such a crime, but when does news TV disappoint? Times Now, where the entire Nupur Sharma…

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News channels lament India’s ‘Talibanisation’ after Udaipur killing, some blame Zubair

Rahul Shivshankar would like you to believe that Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair “enabled” the gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur.

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Chronicling the online campaign to jail Mohammed Zubair

On June 27, Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair was arrested for allegedly hurting Hindu religious sentiments. The supposed reason: a satirical post from four years ago that a now-deleted Twitter account called Hanuman Bhakt apparently found offensive and flagged to the Delhi police on June 19.

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Why we report on the media

The last two years have been hard on journalists. We’ve had to report on a devastating pandemic, while losing our colleagues to the virus. In the first four months of 2020 alone, 31 media professionals succumbed to Covid, and the toll has since risen to nearly 600, according to a…

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Je suis Mr McAdams: Rahul Shivshankar scolds the wrong panelist before realising his mistake

Rahul Shivshankar's debate on Times Now last night was marked by lots of finger-wagging, shouting, berating and, sadly, a case of mistaken identity.

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How Republic passed off a muddle of contradictions as ‘news’ about Disha Salian’s death

The front page of the Indian Express had a short piece yesterday on how after questioning actor Rhea Chakraborty for almost 18 hours, the Enforcement Directorate did not find “any substantial transfers” to her from the bank account of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

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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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