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Which media houses are you talking about exactly? Even a cursory glance on the news channels at prime time will reveal the govt bias quite easily. People have b

by nafey 8y ago

Which media houses are you talking about exactly? Even a cursory glance on the news channels at prime time will reveal the govt bias quite easily. People have been fired for criticising govt and even NDTV recently had, what some believe, to be a politically motivated takeover.

newyankee 8y ago
even a cursory glance at twitter and the usual high profile journalists: Shekar Gupta, Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt etc. Only Arnab Goswami amongst the English media is more inclined towards this govt. In the last 15 years, ever heard any media house criticize Sonia Gandhi ? Even after the umpteen scams. That is what real power is. Sure they make fun of Rahul Gandhi, but every few months articles and reinvention of his persona is done. This is in contrast with the hounding of Modi from his CM days and nowadays where every tangential issue is attributed to him. Will Modi answer is like the Thanks Obama version of India.
- sbmthakur 8y ago
  Even among the mainstream Hindi channels I would say only IndiaTV and ZeeNews have some pro-Modi bias. The rest of them(ABP news, Aaj Tak etc.) criticize the government routinely.
- nafey 8y ago
  Check the reply on their twitter posts for a more balanced perspective. These people hold almost no influence. Think of Prasoon Bajpai, Karan Thapar, Vinod Dua etc. thats the trajectory Sardesai, Dutt et al are on, and not on their path of becoming the next Arnab. Of course they did name Sonia Gandhi. Do you remember the India Against corruption movement which gave rise to AAP? The movement had posed questions to MMS and Sonia Gandhi and media had championed the movement. There was no equivocation about it from any mainstream channel, neither about the multiple scams that preceded it. Media houses had done their duty in speaking truth to power especially in UPA2 days. What I am trying to say is your opinion about Modi's hounding in media seems to be built on what gets printed in wire/print/caravan etc. Although these sources might be heavily represented in your FB timefeed their influence/readership is miniscule compared to a news channel and news papers which have extremely lenient to Modi. Just think how hard media was on UPA2. That same level of scrutiny is sorely missing.
sbmthakur 8y ago
Not exactly media houses, but the Wire and the Print come to my mind.

by nafey 8y ago

newyankee 8y ago

even a cursory glance at twitter and the usual high profile journalists: Shekar Gupta, Rajdeep Sardesai, Barkha Dutt etc. Only Arnab Goswami amongst the English media is more inclined towards this govt. In the last 15 years, ever heard any media house criticize Sonia Gandhi ? Even after the umpteen scams. That is what real power is. Sure they make fun of Rahul Gandhi, but every few months articles and reinvention of his persona is done. This is in contrast with the hounding of Modi from his CM days and nowadays where every tangential issue is attributed to him. Will Modi answer is like the Thanks Obama version of India.

sbmthakur 8y ago
Even among the mainstream Hindi channels I would say only IndiaTV and ZeeNews have some pro-Modi bias. The rest of them(ABP news, Aaj Tak etc.) criticize the government routinely.
nafey 8y ago
Check the reply on their twitter posts for a more balanced perspective. These people hold almost no influence. Think of Prasoon Bajpai, Karan Thapar, Vinod Dua etc. thats the trajectory Sardesai, Dutt et al are on, and not on their path of becoming the next Arnab. Of course they did name Sonia Gandhi. Do you remember the India Against corruption movement which gave rise to AAP? The movement had posed questions to MMS and Sonia Gandhi and media had championed the movement. There was no equivocation about it from any mainstream channel, neither about the multiple scams that preceded it. Media houses had done their duty in speaking truth to power especially in UPA2 days. What I am trying to say is your opinion about Modi's hounding in media seems to be built on what gets printed in wire/print/caravan etc. Although these sources might be heavily represented in your FB timefeed their influence/readership is miniscule compared to a news channel and news papers which have extremely lenient to Modi. Just think how hard media was on UPA2. That same level of scrutiny is sorely missing.

sbmthakur 8y ago

Not exactly media houses, but the Wire and the Print come to my mind.