How the Pew report on Modi was covered
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA MONITORING |19/11/2017
Holes, slanted and selective fact-picking, and weak analysis contributed to projecting an overly positive image for the PM and BJP
The media betrayal over Aadhaar
BY VIDYUT| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/01/2018
Patchy, inconsistent, unfocused coverage is what we got. Consistent investigative reporting would have told us long ago what we know now
Scaremongering over HIV and Aadhaar
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |19/11/2017
A Scroll report that patients will stop treatment revealed a lack of understanding and objectivity, adding to the misinformation.
Demonetisation in numbers—how statistics were used
BY VIKAS KUMAR| IN MEDIA MONITORING |12/11/2017
Two aspects of partisan commentary stood out: adjectives coupled with decontextualised statistics create an illusion of success, and favourable “facts” are mentioned in numbers, whereas inconvenient ones are stated in words.
BY THE HOOT| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/10/2017
In the Aarushi Talwar murder case, the media had scaled new heights of irresponsibility by spreading canards and defamatory stories. The Talwars have now been acquitted by the Allahabad High Court.
Demonetization version 2.0: the frozen accounts fiction
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |09/09/2017
While the Wire reports claimed that the government has “frozen” the bank accounts of all the 2.09 lakh companies, the PIB press release did not use the word “frozen” even once.
Journalism of outrage in Gorakhpur, minus empathy
BY ANUP KUMAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/08/2017
The coverage of a tragedy produced by professional journalists affects how a community and a nation responds to the underlying causes,
Tragedy and denial in Gorakhpur
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/08/2017
As the chief minister decried the TV coverage as fake news, the theatre of denial on the airwaves touched a new low in Indian politics.
TwoCircles.net and Radiance Weekly debate triple talaq
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |10/06/2017
Coverage of the issue in two publications which focus on Indian Muslims suffered from omissions and contradictions.
UP mein Yogi Raj-- the advent of Adityanath
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |05/04/2017
While the English press focused on abattoirs and anti-Romeo squads, reporting in the Hindi press ranged across a wide canvas of pressing issues.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |26/03/2017
@gauravcsawant is at the Gorakhpur mandir gaushala at 3am tweeting away. "Cow protection is integral to our life. It is very important for us both in the state & the centre," @CMOfficeUP tells @IndiaToday @AajTak. And Sawant then goes on to how there are more than 350 cows at the..
How Jagran and Ujala covered UP: Part II
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |25/02/2017
Dainik Jagran and Amar Ujala were pretty balanced but one striking failure was putting tough questions to politicians on behalf of their readers
How Jagran and Ujala covered UP: Part I
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |25/02/2017
Of all the parties in the UP election, the BJP received more coverage in Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran, mainly because it had more star campaigners.
How TOI and Jagran differed in their currency ban coverage
BY ANKITA PANDEY| IN MEDIA MONITORING |28/01/2017
Analysis shows that Dainik Jagran’s front pages and editorial stance backed demonetization while TOI was more nuanced and critical.
BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/12/2016
When a scholar’s lifelong study of ancient knowledge systems is reduced to slogans, it means the media is imposing its own preconceptions on his work.
A death that could not be reported
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2016
Archival nostalgia became the highlights that gave viewers a rare insight into the otherwise aloof Amma.
The media’s rockstar humanitarian
BY SHUMA RAHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/09/2016
The Catholic Church’s latest saint in heaven is really the first “saint” of our mediatised, hyper-exposed times — at once glorious and flawed.
Ra-Ra Rajan: media and the Rajan effect
BY SHUMA RAHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/06/2016
News of 'rock star' RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's exit sparked a torrent of media coverage -- reverential and otherwise.
How the media twisted Irani on Mahishasura
BY VAMSEE JULURI| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/03/2016
Why were her remarks framed as being in opposition to Mahishasura worship rather than as opposition to the denigration of Durga?
Requiem for a demonised university
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/02/2016
The coverage of such crises have always thrown up the responsibility aspect of our media. In its quest for prime time justice it seems oblivious to the damage it does,
Is media creating mass hysteria?
BY AMITABH SRIVASTAVA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/12/2015
Was the juvenile brutalised by his depiction? Do the facts of the case fly in the face of the media myth-making?
BY VIVIAN FERNANDES| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/01/2015
By not checking the ground reality, reports on conversions end up being sketchy and misleading.
Our public intellectual spaces are women free
BY DEVAKI JAIN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/08/2014
Why does the media never invite women to comment on publicly debated issues such as the reform of the Planning Commission,
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |23/05/2013
Punjab Kesari on Thursday splashed gory pictures of the victims of a mass murder in Ghaziabad. The pictures of the family of seven that was brutally killed in their house are disturbing to say the least. Time for the Press Council and its otherwise vocal head Justice Katju to take..
Demolitions and the English press
BY Jyoti Punwani| IN OPINION |16/05/2013
Slum demolitions don't attract press coverage; building demolitions do. Because buildings, not slums, are where people like us live.
Kolkata press twists students' voices?
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/04/2013 ?
Violence in Presidency University provoked the Times of India and The Telegraph to denigrate campus politics. ??
How not to cover a major strike
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/03/2013
The magnitude and purpose of the protest was trivialised, especially by pink papers.
African victims don't move Indian media
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/02/2013
Violence against Africans in India is not reported as intensively as attacks on Indians in Australia.
BY MAYA RANGANATHAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/02/2013
The similarity between the media and the masses in resisting divergent views is uncanny.
Create forums, not battlegrounds
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/02/2013
The present situation demands that national media cover the Gorkhaland movement as comprehensively as the Telangana movement is covered.
IN OPINION |20/11/2012
The coverage given to Thackeray's death by some television channels was overwhelmingly disproportionate to his contribution to people's well-being.
BY NUPUR BASU| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |18/12/2012
The Tamil media was clearly negating a powerful people's movement with its inexplicable prejudices which were fully exploited by the security forces.
Unfair, inaccurate, disparaging
BY Sharda Ugra| IN OPINION |11/08/2012
"A lowly eighth?" Why does the Indian media's Olympic coverage frequently embrace derision of our athletes
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/03/2012
One of the largest-selling newspapers of West Bengal has shown utter disregard for decency and journalistic ethics while covering an incident of rape.
BY Ammu Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/05/2012 ?
The"national" media have been consistently lukewarm to the concerns of north-eastern India, but now it appears the neglect of south-west has begun.
BY Adil Hossain| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |09/01/2012
A comparative study of how three newspapers and a website covered the Supreme Court's verdict on the Zakia Jafri case and Narendra Modi's"sadbhavna mission" reveals how they allowed him to set the agenda.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/12/2011
Is the media taking sides when reporting on nuclear debates? In some cases, the disproportionate reportage is as explosive as the nuclear controversies themselves,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |26/11/2011
Media makes personalities. It also breaks them. These last two weeks have been an illustration of how this happens and the 'personality' is Anna Hazare.
All is fair when covering Anna?
BY Bisakha Ghose| IN OPINION |03/09/2011
Letter to the Hoot: If the cardinal principles of good broadcasting and good editorial practices had been kept in mind, much of the drama in the heat of the moment may not have happened,
Anna agitation - a non-stop reality show
BY NUPUR BASU| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/08/2011
The frenzied coverage of Anna Hazare’s fast by the media surely gives it epic proportions. This is apart from the significance of the movement against corruption itself.
Elitist press spouts asatya on Baba
BY Vamsee Juluri| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/05/2011
To anyone who has paid unbiased attention to what Baba has said it is quite clear that his teachings emanate from a conviction in the idea of a singular divinity.
Media, patriotism and foreign policy
BY SUHASINI HAIDAR| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/05/2010
Most of those arguments, surprisingly, are with fellow journalists, who are supposed to be more liberal than most, and with diplomats, whose livelihood by definition should employ the softer line.
Reporting intelligence - a reporter's dilemma
BY Josy Joseph| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/02/2010
At many times in recent years journalistic perspectives have been shaped by lobbies that are active within the agencies, thus distorting the overall picture.
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |19/07/2008
The nuclear deal is a sensitive subject for The Hindu. Its chief editor is opposed to it, and senior staff have to toe the editorial line. Siddharth Vardarajan’s article on July 12,saying it wasn’t such a bad deal after all, was countered on July 14 by Prabir Purkayastha, a contributor,..
What would have missed if you had read only one newspaper?
BY Tenzin Paldon| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2008
Tibet-China coverage--Part II. The Hindustan Times and Times of India had coverage from most angles, the Hindu and Indian Express did not.
An India-Africa summit? Yawn
BY shubha singh| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |11/04/2008
An African journalist asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh whether there was sufficient interest in India about Africa since there was nothing in the Indian newspapers to reflect it!
BY Darius Nakhoonwala| IN OPINION |16/10/2007
The Congress is more worried about Mayawati than the nuclear deal. No edit writer mentioned this.
When the PM and Sonia ate crow, publicly
IN OPINION |19/10/2007
With that avian breakfast ended the useful life of the UPA government. Surprisingly, it was the Times of India, that said it all.
Why did Sammal Dhurve hang himself?
BY Vijay Nambisan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/10/2007
This is a particularly juicy story, and I can just imagine how it would have been covered.
Waiting for the tsunami to strike
BY Rema Sundar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/09/2007
Did a tsunami, even small, hit Indonesia after the earthquake on 12th September? TV whipped up a scare, and then dropped the story.
Media trial in the era of telelitigation
BY B.P. Sanjay| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/08/2007
The media transforms sensational trials, with celebrity defendants and victims, into telemediated forms. How far removed is such telemediation from reality?
IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |20/08/2007
When asked to choose between the party line and its own convictions lately expressed in print on the desirability of the nuclear deal with the US, the Hindu leader and op ed writers quickly caved in.
Purring about the 123 Agreement
BY Darius Nakhoonwala| IN OPINION |01/08/2007
In different words, the Hindustan Times said the same thing, as did the Indian Express which has been the lead drummer for the deal.
Media justice: activism or elitism?
BY Ranjith Thankappan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |05/06/2007
Jessica and Priyadarshini may become a cause for this `civil society`, but not those majorities falling on the other side of the caste/class order.
The Singur Smokescreen: – Part I
BY aniruddha dutta| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |08/02/2007
The coverage of the process of land acquisition in the mainstream English press obfuscates and falsifies ground realities.
The Singur smokescreen: Part-II?
BY aniruddha dutta| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |08/02/2007 ?
Glossing over the details of "consent" to acquisition and trivialising the farmers` protests has grave implications.
The Singur smokescreen: Part-III?
BY aniruddha dutta| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |08/02/2007 ?
The farmers` resistance was soon overshadowed by law-and-order issues and "mobilization" of public opinion. ??
Supporting the state in Singur??
BY Aloke Thakore| IN OPINION |29/01/2007 ?
A boycott in Nandigram of newspapers or of journalists belonging to some news organizations suggests a feeling of media disenfranchisement.
BY MAYA RANGANATHAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |21/01/2007
Media has to cloak its societal concern in sensationalism if sensationalizing matters will alone garner attention of those that matter.
IN OPINION |07/01/2007 ?
Had a Gandhian made the same point, rather than Ms Banerjee, would the matter have received different treatment?
Assessing the media’s tsunami coverage
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/12/2006
Some $13 billion was pledged as aid to cope with the tsunami aftermath. The world would have not responded the way it did without the media.
The nuke deal and newspaper biases
BY Darius Nakhoonwala| IN OPINION |13/12/2006
The Deccan Herald was the only paper get within sniffing distance of the real issue, but it got to it so late that it had run out of space by then!
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |31/05/2006
The common man was missing from the media analyses of the United Progressive Alliance government’s two-year record.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2006
At last, during the Mahajan crisis, pesky reporters met their match. Vignettes from the 24 hour coverage
BY Shoba T| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/05/2006
Investigative journalism touched a new low on NDTV on Monday.
The perils of becoming a good story
BY Hemangini| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |01/11/2006
Press coverage began with interest and enthusiasm but increasingly the Blank Noise Project carries implicitly the baggage of the media that has covered it.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/06/2005
Why have newspapers like the Hindu and Indian Express which unstintingly invested editorial resources on probing Bofors now decided that it is a non issue?
BY bpsanjay| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |14/04/2006
The death of celebrities like Dr Rajkumar is from the media perspective an opportunity to fill telecast time and satiate its appetite for ratings.
Narendra Modi, Pravasi Divas, and Secularism
BY ramanujan| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/01/2006
Rajiv and Indira Gandhi were forgiven their excesses but Modi still gets the secular media’s goat. Any association with him is to be derided.
BY Dasu Krishnamoorty| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/08/2005
At the Hindu, the editorial writers at Chennai promptly rushed to contain the Khare damage. Its editorial the next day isolated the Congress party for blame.
Anatomy of an ethnic clash---Part II
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |18/06/2005
The Press decided to boycott the chief minister D D Lapang and the home minister Dr Mukul Sangma till they withdrew the cases and apologized.
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |30/05/2005
Was it by design or sheer ignorance that the media whipped up an ethnic scare in Meghalaya last week?
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/01/2005
Three malayalam channels were reporting on the tsunami developments in such a hysterical manner as to whip up a scare wave which had people in the entire area from Thiruvananthapuram to Chavakkad on the run
The Muslim growth rate and the media
BY ammu jo| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/09/2004
Significantly, the copy was less sensational than the headlines in almost all the papers
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/08/2004
In true Sriharikota style, most channels gave viewers an excited countdown to the scheduled execution.
The media’s objectification of the youth
BY shivam vij| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/04/2003
The disconnect is not between the urban youth and the realities of india but between the media and the youth.
Media Focus—Salman and the Voice of Truth
IN OPINION |25/11/2002
With trembling fingers, Salman opened the autobiography and started reading, despite the dim light….
A cricketer, a reporter, and a cop
IN OPINION |29/07/2002
Post Summit Introspection
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2002
The Indian Women’s Press Corp in Delhi had a discussion on what the relationship between the government and the media should be.
The frenzied coverage of Natasha Singhs death
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/04/2002
Reporting the Naval Chiefs sackingA Case of Media Manipulation
BY Sevanti Ninan Shailaja Bajpai| IN BOOKS |13/04/2002
How the Indian Press covered the sacking of Admiral Bhgwat
