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?
https://theprint.in/opinion/arvind-kejriwal-cant-absolve-himself-ethically-excise-policy-encouraged-alcohol-intake/2018285/
The Kejriwal government in Delhi disregarded the Directive Principles of State policy with the corrupt excise policy on liquor.
what is this liquor policy that landed both Kejriwal and his lieutenant Manish Sisodia in jail?
This article makes an attempt to decipher New Delhi excise policy 2021-2022 on liquor and its objectionable points. At the outset, it would be interesting to note that the said policy was withdrawn within one year of its existence, not by the judiciary or any central agency but by the Kejriwal government itself. Since then, doubts have been raised regarding the integrity associated with the policy.
‘Billionaire Raj’ Is Pushing India Toward Autocracy https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-25/india-election-billionaire-raj-is-backing-modi-and-leading-to-autocracy
The super-rich have opened their wallets to Modi, and income inequality has soared over the past d https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-25/india-election-billionaire-raj-is-backing-modi-and-leading-to-autocracy...While inequality has grown since the 1980s, in step with a lopsided distribution of gains from globalization across the world, Modi’s reign has spawned a tiny class of super-rich. Fewer than 10,000 individuals in a population of 920 million adults earn an average 480 million rupees ($5.7 million), more than 2,000 times the average income of $2,800. Nine out of 10 Indians earn less than the average...
A handful of tycoons — such as Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani and Sajjan Jindal — have entered the leagues of the world’s richest people. They did so not by putting innovative products and services in global markets, but by carving up domestic industries such as transportation, telecom, power and gas, metals, retail, media and new energy. The Modi government rewarded large businesses with tax cuts and awarded them prized monopoly assets like airports. The billionaires got juicy deals when buying bankrupt firms and lobbied — often successfully — for protectionist trade policies.