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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...
Calling Smriti Irani’s Bluff: Twisted Truths in Parliament
First published on February 25, 2016Goebbels was an interesting...
Express yourself without fear: Faculty to IIT Kanpur students
They wrote in support of students reciting Faiz’s poem “Hum Dekhenge” during anti-CAA protest
BJP trends CCA instead of CAA leaving Twitterati in splits
The party’s IT Cell used the hashtag #IndiaSupportsCCA which trended on no. 1 with more than 40k tweets
‘Godi’ media digital polls don’t get validation; deleted
Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation too deletes a poll after people do not vote in CAA’s favour
Gauhati HC checks legality of ED summons to Assam newspaper
The petitioner stated that the ED was trying to stop the true facts of the Assam agitation against CAA from being disseminated to the public
‘Zee TV misleads people’, journalist resigns over channel’s coverage of Jamia protest
Nasir Azmi was the head of video content at Zee Media. In a poor defence, the company has, post facto, claimed that he was an ‘under performer’.
No post mortem report, media coverage for the dead in Meerut
Five people had been arbitrarily shot by the police in the wake of anti-CAA clashes in UP
Don’t show anti-national content: I&B Ministry
On the day that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was...
Journalist threatened by police for reporting inaction in Sultanpur rape case: UP
The UP police have been intimidating him for exposing a rape case that they tried to conceal
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