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Newsrooms that Swallow Whales
One of the contemporary lamentations — including from legacy media houses themselves — is that big business has devoured television news channels. Titled “Newsrooms that Swallow Whales,” this visual-and-verbal...
A social media account that promotes Hindu supremacy and fear mongering
We came across an account on Instagram that posts videos promoting Hindu supremacism and victimising Hindus despite being the majority
Sudarshan News continues to spread hatred, targets Muslims
Chavhanke, along with Hindu monk Devkinandan Thakur, advocates for the Babri mosque demolition to be repeated in Mathura and Kashi
The poster boy of cow vigilantism, Monu Manesar, is back
A suspect in the double murder of Junaid and Nasir from Rajasthan in February this year, his name was dropped from the list of suspects, now he is back to acts of cow vigilantism
CJP complaint to Aaj Tak for airing show using the term “Mazaar Jihad”
CJP Team -
In the show, hosted by Sudhir Chaudhary, he encouraged people to look for shrines around them and report them to the police to verify if they are real or fake.
IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”
The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC
BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit
The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”
Moradabad Police debunks false communally charged claims made by Panchjanya, warns of taking legal action if misinformation is spread
In the now deleted tweet, the mouthpiece of RSS had claimed that a Muslim man had raped his Hindu wife along with his 15 friends
SC for freedom of expression: Strikes down ban on Media One
In a decisive 133 page judgement the apex court lifted the ban that had been suddenly imposed on January 31, 2023 brushing aside “national security concerns@ cited by the union government and upheld by the Kerala High Court
Ram Navami violence by Aaj Tak calls into question the lopsided portrayal of communally sensitive news
Even as violent incidents occurred in many Indian states, mainstream media conveniently presented a one-sided narrative
2023 Goenka Awards for excellence in journalism, IE editor in chief Rajkamal Jha turns the spotlight on media arrests
Jha delivered this pithy critique of the times we live in while union minister for Information & Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur looked on when he delivered his brief vote of thanks
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