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From roadshows to studio shows, Modi ‘interviews’ are everywhere—what has changed?

Shailaja Bajpai - 16 May, 2024

Newspapers are pushing Modi to inside pages more and more while TV channels remain faithful

DD News anchor calls Congress wealth survey ‘communist ideology’. It’s following BJP’s lead

Modi’s Newsweek Q&A was without questions—and how ANI interviews in 2019 and 2024 compare

When news channels brought pre-World Cup India-Pakistan battle home after Pulwama

Shailaja Bajpai - 21 February, 2019

Ravish Kumar’s call for restraint was akin to a call to practice journalism — an alien concept in the genetic structure of TV news.

The day Rahul and Rafale came down on PM Modi, CAG report or not

Shailaja Bajpai - 14 February, 2019

As soon as the CAG report on Rafale deal was tabled in Parliament, TV channels jostled to get ‘exclusive’ rights.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Mamata Banerjee: The two powerful women who held TV news hostage

Shailaja Bajpai - 7 February, 2019

A spectacle was unfolding with Priyanka Gandhi-Robert Vadra in Delhi, while another one in West Bengal had peaked and ended.

Yogi’s dips, mandir plan and cows: Indian TV this week was all about the holy matters

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 January, 2019

With BJP’s careful media management, TV channels don’t go looking for trouble unless they have to.

When TV channels talked about Priyanka, not Chopra but Gandhi

Shailaja Bajpai - 24 January, 2019

News channels pecked at Priyanka Gandhi’s appointment as general secretary, East UP for the Congress.

Titillation, titillation, titillation — what Karan Johar’s Koffee with Karan is all about

Shailaja Bajpai - 17 January, 2019

Koffee with Karan does not need celebrities, just loose talk on sex and dating.

A new era in TV: Rahul Gandhi a rising star and Arnab Goswami critiquing BJP

Shailaja Bajpai - 10 January, 2019

'Chowkidar’ PM ignores media and Rahul Gandhi likes media but dislikes any other subject than Rafale.

Narendra Modi blew hot at election rallies, but was Mr Cool in his interview

Shailaja Bajpai - 2 January, 2019

His interviews offer a sharp contrast to his campaign speeches, and must be seen together to get a measure of Narendra Modi.

2018: When gaay-gotra slayed prime time news—and Indian TV was everything epic

Shailaja Bajpai - 31 December, 2018

Everything Hindu made the cut.

This top-rated media pairing has beaten Priyanka-Nick and Deepika-Ranveer

Shailaja Bajpai - 20 December, 2018

The leaders of the two national parties would be lost, nay bereft, without each other.

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From roadshows to studio shows, Modi ‘interviews’ are everywhere—what has changed?

Newspapers are pushing Modi to inside pages more and more while TV channels remain faithful

DD News anchor calls Congress wealth survey ‘communist ideology’. It’s following BJP’s lead

Modi’s Newsweek Q&A was without questions—and how ANI interviews in 2019 and 2024 compare

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