Zee News and Aaj Tak reported the Supreme Court verdict but DD News announced it in a flash and then went to visit Vibrant Gujarat. Republic Bharat was all religious over ‘sanatan dharm’.
Since PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Ayodhya to inaugurate several projects, we have watched in wonder as almost all the news channels devoted themselves to ‘celebrating Diwali’.
If Indian media's coverage helped tip the scales against ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, then global media weakened western support for Israeli attacks in Gaza too. Watch out for 2024 elections now.
Many anchors and well-known TV news reporters are no longer where they are supposed to be—they’ve taken on new assignments and left us scratching our heads.
And the winner is… ‘Modi Magic’. The losers are the exit polls and TV news—besides the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi, of course.
In fact, I’m wondering...
The government deserves compliments for placing a barrier between the public and the rescue mission. Or news channels would have done everything to enter the tunnel.
No channels have made the effort to track down families of trapped workers. But channels like Desh News & India Voice have reams of footage of bereaved families in Gaza & Israel.
TV news shows it like it is, newspapers tell it like it is. Together they are fighting for our ‘Right to Breathe’, and have been at it well before Dehi turned ‘sick’.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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