Topic: Media
BBC is swimming in poisonous waters. It needs to be truly impartial to survive
Twitter bans aren’t the answer to BBC’s bias problems. Correspondents should give due respect to counterarguments from outside the Left-liberal bubble.
Google comes around, will pay select publishers over $1 billion for news content
Google will pay publishers to provide blurbs for its news app and to give readers free access to certain paywalled articles.
HSBC orders social media blackout fearing ‘negative reactions’ after suspect funds report
HSBC is one of about 90 banks named in leaked documents that show about $2 tn in transactions between 1999 and 2017 were flagged as possible money laundering or other criminal activity.
‘Drugwood’, ‘Umar Lobby Secret Tape’, ‘UPSC jihad’ — You aren’t watching news but masala TV
A reporter climbs Ladakh mountain, another asks a postman why he tore down Kangana Ranaut’s office, and yet another calls an FB session a ‘secret tape’. TV isn’t news anymore.
Vajpayee took journalists, analysts to Kargil frontlines. In 2020, Modi can’t even say ‘China’
In 1999, the government allowed the world to see Pakistan’s Kargil invasion and the Indian army's resolve. But Narendra Modi has reversed gears on transparency.
DGCA tells IndiGo to take action after media violates safety rules on flight with Kangana Ranaut
The DGCA pointed to several issues from the incident, including photography within the aircraft, violating social distancing norms and unruly behaviour.
This is how China deployed psy-war after Ladakh. And why India isn’t replying
The LAC is not the only place India has to fight China. We can’t be silent and let Chinese psy-ops manipulate truth.
Aatma, autopsy, jadu—After Ayodhya, TV news went right back to magnificent Sushant obsession
As soon as the Ayodhya bhoomi pujan was done and PM Modi had spoken, news channels scuttled back to their favourite obsession — conspiracy theories about Sushant Singh’s death.
Editors in Modi’s India have two choices — speak up or give in to intellectual slavery
The press, which is the fourth pillar of Indian democracy, is not given the same status as the other three pillars today. Journalists have to make their choice.
Sachin Pilot has done the unthinkable — united all TV channels from NDTV to Republic
Nearly every single anchor on English and Hindi news channels praised Sachin Pilot – from NDTV to Republic. But they just couldn’t get the headline they wanted.
France attacks show Muslims’ self-inflicted paranoia. But Quran allows freedom of expression
When it comes to blasphemy, Islam offers only one choice to Muslims. And it’s not what happened in France.
Gold sales this festival season to be India’s worst since 2008
Covid and weak economic growth are likely to push sales below last year’s 194 tons to the lowest quarterly numbers since 2008, according to a consultant at Metals Focus Ltd.
Defence
Army develops WhatsApp-like app for personnel to dodge risk of communication leaks
The Secure Application for Internet supports secure voice, text and video-calling services for Android platforms over the internet. It is end-to-end encrypted.
Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.