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Topic: TV News

TV is an idiot, it hasn’t learnt from SSR coverage. Nikita Jacob, Disha Ravi new targets

‘Nobody knows what’s true anymore,’ says a friend of Disha Ravi. That’s the truth of this week’s news coverage on the ‘toolkit conspiracy’.

Annadata or anarchist? Belligerent TV channels pointed fingers, demanded justice

Reporters questioned men who rode into Delhi on tractors, like cowboys in the wild West, and learnt that some had come for protest tourism and tractor sightseeing.

In Times Now Vs Republic TV opera, Navika Kumar ‘killed’ Arnab Goswami with kindness

India win in Brisbane saved viewers from collateral damage of Times Now Vs Republic war.

PM Modi has become India’s TV god, while ‘cry baby’ opposition blamed for ‘too much politics’

On TV news these days, Modi is India, India is Modi — an echo of the infamous saying by Congressman D K Barooah about Indira Gandhi.

Anchors almost killed TV news in 2020. What Indian media must do in 2021

From the frenzy around Sushant Singh Rajput’s death to dwelling on ‘anti-nationals’ & ‘corona jihad’, news appeared more like entertainment in 2020.

You need Machiavelli, not a Mahatma to outwit Modi, Arnab Goswami told me about Rahul Gandhi

In ‘The Great Unravelling’, Sanjay Jha writes about why Arnab Goswami wanted to go after Rahul Gandhi and the TV debate that truly hurt his credibility.

Opinion polls put Modi-Nitish at ease till news headlines suck the joy out of NDA campaign

The contrast between surly incumbent Nitish Kumar and calm pretender Tejashwi Yadav has been neatly juxtaposed on TV, which has gone the extra mile in its coverage of Bihar election.

Arnab Goswami vs rest: How TRPs can be fixed, and why TV news is caught in a vicious fight

In Episode 589 of Cut the Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains the ongoing controversy surrounding TV news ratings in India.

TV news had a tough time covering Hathras gangrape case. Sushant kept coming in between

News channels have Trumpified their coverage — they have been nasty, mean and often brutish in covering the Sushant Singh Rajput case.

Indians are done with Arnab, Rajdeep and Anjana. Prefer MSD, Kohli and IPL over TV news drug

Where the news has become a never-ending soap opera, the IPL is like an action film with hits and misses, spills and thrills — and moments of pure joy too.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

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.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

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?