India's elections are coming up...are the media up to the task? | The India Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEgb8ZSA1c Al Jazeera English
With India amid a national election campaign, its news media is in sharp focus. Until recently it was believed that the sheer diversity of outlets ensured a range of perspectives, but now, India’s mainstream media has largely been co-opted by the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Just how did the media in India get to this point and what does it mean for the upcoming elections?
Featuring:
Ravish Kumar - Former Host, NDTV https://youtu.be/rHEgb8ZSA1c?t=250
Shashi Shekhar Vempati - Former CEO, Prasar Bharati https://youtu.be/rHEgb8ZSA1c?t=294 TV rating system responsible...
Pramod Raman - Chief Editor, MediaOne
Amy Kazmin - Former South Asia Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Meena Kotwal - Founder, The Mooknayak
‘Journalists of Republic TV
are propagandists’: Sagarika Ghose on BJP, media, Marxism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LxOWpdGWKQ The News Minute
Sagarika Ghose, the journalist-turned-politician who recently made headlines for joining the Trinamool Congress, is set to contest the Rajya Sabha polls.
In this candid conversation with Sudipto Mondal for What’s your ism? – a podcast by The News Minute and Newslaundry – Ghose talks about the BJP, Mamata Banerjee, media, Marxism and intellectuals in Indian politics.
She says the mainstream media has been “captured by the Modi government” and the “journalists at Republic TV are not journalists but propagandists”.
What brings her to politics? What does she think about being compared to France’s infamous queen Marie Antoinette? Why does she think intellectuals don’t make good politicians?
