Media Misworks

Lawbreakers, not quite citizens: ‘Bulldozer’ reportage shows how little India cares for urban poor . https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/04/28/lawbreakers-not-quite-citizens-bulldozer-reportage-shows-how-little-india-cares-for-urban-poor  Their ‘illegal’ settlements are often treated as eyesores standing in the way of ‘beautifying’ a city. ByKalpana Sharma28 Apr, 2022

Instead of showing an iota of sensitivity, a section of TV journalists shouted, climbed onto bulldozers, and remained in perpetual exclamation mode as they recorded the mayhem. To get a glimpse of this, take time to watch this edition of TV Newsance  by Newslaundry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roMsxpdw4xE  Our (Reporters') job is not to kick people who are already crushed by poverty and unemployment; it is to hold to account the people with power. On April 20, we did just the opposite.

These settlements of the urban poor have a history, linked to migration but also to demolition. Jahangirpuri, for instance, was designated to resettle people pushed out from the heart of Delhi in efforts by the Indira Gandhi government to “beautify” the national capital. That term has increasingly come to mean that you either hide the poor, or send them far away so that urban poverty is invisiblised.

The people who were settled in Jahangirpuri in the 1970s were given small plots on which they were expected to construct their shelters. These people had originally come to Delhi from UP, Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal. Over time, as with most other similar settlements, tin and tarpaulin were replaced with brick and mortar, and pucca houses coexisted with temporary structures – all under the benign eye of the authorities.

Yet, this history of the place, and understanding of what it was and how and why it is what it is today, was largely missing from the reporting on Jahangirpuri.

the sham of BARC ratings https://youtube/embed/UL7fy1zb9qU?start=030&end=330 | TV Newsance 26th Mar 2022

This week, every major news channel running amok with the recently resumed television ratings by the #BroadcastAudienceResearchCouncil. The clamour around which channel made it to the top was finally settled. Spoiler alert, it’s all of them. Arnab took the cake, of course, with a long and breathless name-calling tirade.

News Framing in a Time of Terror A Study of the Media Coverage of the Copenhagen Shootings Hanne Jørndrup August 2016 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312095116_News_Framing_in_a_Time_of_Terror_A_Study_of_the_Media_Coverage_of_the_Copenhagen_Shootings  how the framing of the shooting as a “terror attack” transformed the news coverage into a “news media” media event, abandoning the journalistic norm of criti-cal approach while the media instead became the scene of national mourning.

On the one hand, they focused on one of the core elements in journalism – the gathering of facts. This connects to a basic ideal of journalism as an essential institution in a democratic society – with the duty to inform the public about important events. On the other hand, journalists neglected another core virtue in journalism – that of being a critical opponent to the establishment, the government and its institutions. This ideal also demands journalists to separate facts from opinion and emotion.; how the coverage on September 11 quickly shifted from the standard ideas of how to report in a balanced and objective manner within the sphere of legitimate controversy to reporting within the sphere of consensus where a value-based "we" was considered under siege by evil forces. Authorities such as the police, the firre brigade and the US president were national heroes, and journalists did not make any effort to balance their views with those of Osama bin Laden or any others. On the contrary, the terrorists and their actions were reported within the sphere of deviance and demonised as the very antithesis of the national or Western "we" .

मुसलमानों, नौजवानों और सिखों को देशद्रोही बताने वाले गिद्ध । Navin Kumar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EWrAstvok4 Nov 25, 2021 Article19 India

चौथे खंभे पर चढ़कर लोकतंत्र को नोचने वालों को पहचानिए। इनके चेहरे निर्धन, निर्दोष और निरीह लोगों की आहों से चमक रहे। एक दिन आपके बच्चे आपसे पूछेंगे जब ऐसे लोग देश को नोच रहे थे तो आप क्या कर रहे थे?