Journalists - Role, Rights, Arrests
Barkha Dutt speaks to Veteran Journalist & co-founder of Newslaundary Madhu Trehan . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_pXSHsRJ8w Madhu says she is "not convinced that the shouting debates on TV News primetime are getting TRPs."
Why did you leave news laundry ? https://youtu.be/k_pXSHsRJ8w?t=156 I'm 77 now . two years ago I decided I did not want to spend the last lap of my career like this.. wake up in the morning and check every story and check every word and every bit of footage because one wrong could taken as defamatory and seditious. it could be anything.
Telling your people to wait for the other side. You're writing a negative story about someone.. at least give him a chance. Young people don't want to wait for 24 hours .
I have done it in the past, but at this stage I wanted to write with a larger perspective, look lt the larger Horizon of where we're going, what we are etc.
https://youtube.com/embed/TpyjKcejGhw?start=108&end=241
Sanjay Sharma of 4 pm says that he has a twiiter account on x, @Editor_SanjayS seems to have a "shadow ban" (ie block a user from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users) If this is confirmed he promises to file a legal notice on whether this is because he keeps questioning the government.
(comment: the statement could be seen as a "subscriber" enhancing appeal. Yet someone who promised to take the matter up should be supported.. i am therefore subscribing, but unfortunately this youtube channel itself does not alow any comments.. )
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3q744/where-did-shadow-banning-come-from-trump-republicans-shadowbanned Since the early days of the web, a “shadow ban” has been a moderation technique used to ban people from forums or message boards without alerting them that they’ve been banned. Typically, this means that a user can continue posting as normal, but their posts will be hidden from the rest of the community...Twitter also had a bug (since fixed!!)that caused some accounts to not be auto-suggested in search results even when people were searching for their names.
The Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
The idea that Silicon Valley giants use shadow banning to silence conservatives was popularized by far right publications over the last two years... Today, platforms like Twitter have to moderate millions of people—billions, in Facebook's case. Because of this scale, content moderation is significantly different. Moderators are rarely members of the communities they’re moderating and are instead people who are paid to action content that is reported by users for violating a platform’s rules or content that is surfaced by algorithms..... In the case of Holocaust denial for example, Facebook will sometimes “significantly reduce the distribution of content" rather than outright ban it.
Press Club condemns FIR against The Caravan journalists, asks police to halt the FIR https://indiatomorrow.net/2024/06/08/press-club-condemns-fir-against-the-caravan-journalists-the-caravan-calls-the-allegations-fabricated/ June 8, 2024
Press Club of India has strongly condemned the registration of an FIR against journalists of The Caravan under Sections 354 (outraging modesty of a woman) and 153A (promoting communal enmity) of Indian Penal Code at the Bhajanpura police station in Northeast Delhi.
The concerned journalists were reporting on the allegations against the Bhajanpura police officials and on communal tensions in Northeast Delhi in August 2020...While they were on their reporting assignment, they faced a life-threatening communal attack and sexual harassment by a mob in the area...A PCI statement released by its president Gautam Lahiri and general secretary Neeraj Thakur on Saturday said that instead of holding the attackers to account, the Delhi police not only delayed the registration of FIR but also went ahead with initiating an investigation against the journalists.
S S on WA says: the news was that the mysterious death two years ago of a brilliant (Muslim) student (from the North Eastern state of Assam) in the student hostel of a Central Government-run top-notch engineering college, which was being aggressively sold by the college management as a case of suicide, is actually one of brutal murder -- involving gunshot and stab wounds.
While murders -- even brutal ones -- are far from rare in "democracies", the deliberate institutional attempt to suppress the fact of murder is
undoubtedly pretty much jarring.
Prabir Purkayastha | Abhisar Sharma conversation about the seven months in jail, the status of press freedom and democracy in India, among other things.
NewsClick चलता रहेगा इसमें कोई शक नहीं है: Prabir Purkayastha | Abhisar Sharma
May 23, 2024 3 October 2023 को NewsClick के दफ्तर, editors के घरों, कर्मचारियों के घरों और संस्थान से जुड़े अन्य लोगों के घरों पर दिल्ली पुलिस की स्पेशल सेल ने raid की। इसके साथ ही NewsClick के संस्थापक और editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha को Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act की धाराओं के तहत गिरफ्तार भी कर लिया गया। 15 May 2024 को Supreme Court ने इस गिरफ़्तारी को अवैध घोषित कर दिया और Prabir Purkayastha रिहा हुए।
देखिए वरिष्ठ पत्रकार Abhisar Sharma और Prabir Purkayastha के बीच की ये खास बातचीत जिसमें चर्चा हुई सात महीने से ज़्यादा जेल में रहने, देश में मीडिया, लोकतंत्र, आदि पर।
On October 3, 2023, NewsClick's editors, employees, and others associated with the organisation woke up to the early morning knock by the Delhi Police Special Cell teams. The police orchestrated widespread raids, which resulted in the arrest of NewsClick's editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, under various sections of the anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
On May 15, 2024, the Supreme Court pronounced the arrest as 'void' and ordered the release of Prabir Purkayastha.