Makes no sense whatsoever. Just nonsense verbiage. I am surprised that the news channel pays such idiots salaries.
Does it make sense to you or to any other person?
A helpful suggestion to you and all the other very agitated persons:
- Make two columns, one of verbs, another of nouns.
- Attach any verb to any noun.
- Start your own news channel.
Poor naive Joe. Living inside the echo chamber for so long has clearly propagated the delusions some Indians still hold regarding their "free" press.
https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/indias-not-so-free-media/
FEATURES | SOCIETY | SOUTH ASIA
"India’s Not-So-Free Media
India’s once-famed press is devolving into a propaganda apparatus.
By Aman Madan
January 23, 2019
An Indian man pulls out a newspaper at a news stand in New Delhi, India (April 6, 2018).
Credit: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
Narendra Modi last year, well after he was swept to power in 2014 on a wave of optimism. The electoral success of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was predicated on two fundamental tenets: removing corruption and strengthening and modernizing India’s democracy.
As circumstances have changed, so has the Modi government’s media strategy. As Modi faces a weakened economy at home and increased communal tension across the country, the prime minister and his party moved to hijack the country’s historically free press. The government has not created an official state run news service, but instead relies on independent news organizations to peddle its economic narrative, chastise a Muslim minority, and prey on Hindu anxieties in the country.
While the systematic co-optation of the country’s media works in the BJP’s favor as the party prepares for elections in 2019, control over the country’s media is about something more sinister. Control over the nation’s press is an attempt to promote a Hindu nationalist, or
Hindutva, agenda across all of India’s institutions. It is also an attempt to hegemonize its communal narrative in an officially secular country with a large Hindu majority.
For a long time, the BJP has promoted itself as a moderate and pro-growth political alternative to the Indian National Congress, the country’s previous political heavyweight. In 2014, the BJP’s focus on these principles propelled it to a historic victory.
Yet the BJP has always shared a close relationship with the Sangh Parivar, an organization of extremist Hindu groups who advocate Hindu dominance over the country’s Christian and Muslim minorities. The Sangh Parivar has also served as the BJP’s ideological inspiration. As the BJP’s economic agenda flounders, its facade as a moderate political party that does not engage in communal politics is also unraveling. Ultimately, the Sangh Parivar seeks to achieve a Hindu India, and as the Sangh Parivar’s political arm, the
BJP is in a position to use the state machinery to fulfill that vision, including control over the media.
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In order to achieve this, the government relies primarily on one network: Republic TV. Republic TV began in 2017 and was anchored by one of Indian media’s most famous media personalities, Arnab Goswami. Republic TV appealed to the worst of the Indian media’s characteristics. It was loud, brash, and theatrics mattered more than civil discourse. Take this
segment for an example: Goswami begins a fiery tirade against Waris Pathan, a member of legislative assembly for the All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (India’s only largescale Muslim political party) in which he attacks Pathan for refusing to stand for the national anthem. On eight separate occasions in a mere 30 seconds, Goswami yells some version of “Why can’t you stand up for the national anthem?” He proceeds to claim that he knows why Pathan does not stand. Goswami’s answer? According to Goswami, Pathan is an anti-national.
The term “anti-national” is a complicated term, one used to denote individuals who are perceived to be anti-Indian. Republic TV has devoted considerable amounts of airtime to debating who constitutes an anti-national. Take this
clip, for instance, in which Republic TV devotes an entire segment to labeling students at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University as anti-national for demanding freedom for Kashmir. For a Western audience, the term “anti-national” will be understood as a reference to those individuals who denounce a nation’s constitutional principles. In India, this term has taken on an entirely new meaning. As terms and who they are ascribed upon are closely linked to who possesses power, the term “anti-national” now includes anyone who “
breaks Hindu traditions,” an alleged bedrock of the Indian state itself.
Goswami’s primetime show has made battles on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show seem tame and mild-mannered in comparison. Republic TV’s popularity also forced changes in rival channels. Times Now, one of India’s largest channels, began their own regular programming of jingoistic, overtly pro-BJP content. Some of its most prominent anchors regularly carry shows slanted toward BJP talking points,
accusing the opposition Congress party of “Hindu-phobia” or
insinuatingthat Congress is “weak” on Pakistan and therefore sympathetic to Pakistan’s long history of state-sponsored terrorism.
demonstrated by Jason Jones of “The Daily Show” when he literally bought an article in the
Mumbai Mirror claiming he was the world’s best journalist.
Satire aside,
a sting by the media house Cobrapost revealed that nearly two dozen media houses were willing to promote an Hindutva agenda and influence coverage for the 2019 elections. Simply put, media channels that are willing to play along find a lucrative payday and increased access by a government that refuses to hold press conferences.
On the flip side, media that is critical of the BJP becomes a target. The government has deployed tactics of fear and intimidation against opponents, often doing so through Hindu nationalist groups part of the Sangh Parivar.
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Indian howler monkey media is a simple extension of the BJP writ by rather more subversive (but not exactly subtle) means.
That evil soundtrack music though...
"Pakistan's debt and discontent.....China's dam......dun dun DUNNNNN!!!!"
Also I like how they whined about locals complaining but didn't interview a single local.
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