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Cobrapost ‘sting’: Media silent, Twitter outraged
NH WEB DESKPublished: Mar 26th 2018, 07.18 PM
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NH Photo by Vishwadeepak
Cobrapost editor Aniruddha Bahal (third from right) at the press conference on the news website’s purported sting operation, in New Delhi on March 26
Few media houses have as yet reacted to the purported sting by Cobrapost, claiming to expose how media outlets agreed to peddle content in return for money, but Twitter users expressed outrage
Not many media houses have as yet reacted to the purported sting by Cobrapost, claiming to expose how media owners, publishers and managers agreed to peddle content and political propaganda in return for money. These outlets allegedly agreed, in exchange for money, to run political campaigns, mythology and spirituality cloaked in political terms and a “soft Hindutva” agenda for electoral gains by way of content.
Interestingly, National Herald reporters attending the Cobrapost press conference at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Monday, March 26, said that soon after the screening of the purported sting began, Times Now, Republic TV and Rajya Sabha removed their mikes.
Amid the silence of the mainstream media on the purported sting, commentators on Twitter expressed shock at the contents of the sting, in which media executives are purportedly seen declaring to undercover reporter Pushp Sharma that they have no problem diluting or blanking out news ‘against Hindutva’, belittling Opposition political parties such as Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal, or defaming political leaders like Congress President Rahul Gandhi as long as they were paid fully in advance.
NH WEB DESKPublished: Mar 26th 2018, 07.18 PM
2.58 K
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NH Photo by Vishwadeepak
Cobrapost editor Aniruddha Bahal (third from right) at the press conference on the news website’s purported sting operation, in New Delhi on March 26
Few media houses have as yet reacted to the purported sting by Cobrapost, claiming to expose how media outlets agreed to peddle content in return for money, but Twitter users expressed outrage
Not many media houses have as yet reacted to the purported sting by Cobrapost, claiming to expose how media owners, publishers and managers agreed to peddle content and political propaganda in return for money. These outlets allegedly agreed, in exchange for money, to run political campaigns, mythology and spirituality cloaked in political terms and a “soft Hindutva” agenda for electoral gains by way of content.
Interestingly, National Herald reporters attending the Cobrapost press conference at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Monday, March 26, said that soon after the screening of the purported sting began, Times Now, Republic TV and Rajya Sabha removed their mikes.
Amid the silence of the mainstream media on the purported sting, commentators on Twitter expressed shock at the contents of the sting, in which media executives are purportedly seen declaring to undercover reporter Pushp Sharma that they have no problem diluting or blanking out news ‘against Hindutva’, belittling Opposition political parties such as Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal, or defaming political leaders like Congress President Rahul Gandhi as long as they were paid fully in advance.
