Lies and Rumors spread by Indian media

gemini90

Journeyman
Seeing how nepalese on twitter have been trending #Gohomeindianmedia fot the totally insensitive and senseless questions they have been asking the survivors and Indians are trending #Don'tcomebackindianmedia, let's look at how shameless our media is. And this is just in April.

Top Lies spread by the Indian Media in April 2015

1. 3rd April 2015: PTI and IANS and subsequently all other media: Neemuch Riots

We had written a separate Neemuch riots ? How Media reports when Hindus are under attack on this. PTI and IANS chose to deliberately obfuscate the truth, in an attempt to post an unclear picture, when the facts were very clear. A Hanuman Jayanti procession was attacked by stone-pelting by some members from the Muslim Community. But PTI, IANS and subsequently all media, did not name the community. Instead they chose to use words such as “some miscreants” and “people from a specific group”. This although it was clear which community was involved. Eventually this stone-pelting resulted in violence, arson and 3 days curfew.

2. 4th April 2015: NDTV and Times of India: Open Letter to Arvind Kejriwal by Prashant Bhushan

In the latest war of words in AAP, Bhushan wrote another letter to Kejriwal. NDTV reproduced the letter on its site in above post, but conveniently edited out a particular paragraph which had allegations against Kejriwal of being Communal. Times of India too had a story which claimed they had published the “FULL TEXT” of the letter, but they too omitted this paragraph. We had written a full post on this Earlier NDTV used to create lies, now they delete truths

Amusingly, NDTV added a footnote saying “This piece has been edited for brevity and in keeping with our legal guidelines.” It is intriguing how the same paragraph was edited out by both NDTV and Times of India for “brevity”. As for “legal guidelines”, NDTV isn’t one to show much concern for the law on most occasions, involving its own Is NDTV muzzling an honest officer who caught their Tax Fraud?

And 17 more are given in the article i have linked.

As far plagiarism goes,

*i.imgur.com/Kzam9zk.jpg
 

GhorMaanas

The Vagrant Seeker
just a few minutes back i came across this info that the Nepalese people are miffed with the Indian media. didn't know of the causes.

- unditv and other channels (Hindi-English alike) had been repeatedly showing footages from Philippines quake and Thai tsunami, attributing them to the Nepal quake.
- another instance of 'brevity' and 'legal guidelines' was the (un)coverage of the recent incident at Shaamli.
 

Flash

Lost in speed
Newslaundry ? Relentless Questioning By Some Reporters And Anchors Left Megha Singh Traumatised, According To Eye Witnesses
 

Desmond

Destroy Erase Improve
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There should be some body or agency to ensure that news agencies don't bend the truth. We also need laws to make sure that its enforced.
 

ssdivisiongermany1933

Still in war with allies
its time to scrap some wings of media , if not than it will go out of control in its lies and propaganda , I have switched back to doordarshnan ....stopped watching all private channels and also blocked them in my D2H

#Presstitutes sorry , you are now unbearable
 

amjath

Human Spambot
For the past 3 days it is only Salman, is that really needed?? No F**king No. I'm getting irritated watching news
 

Minion

Conversation Architect
Indian news channels are crap now. For watching news switch to doordarshan.

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For the past 3 days it is only Salman, is that really needed?? No F**king No. I'm getting irritated watching news

I was in barber shop I saw salman stuff for 2 hrs 30 mins.They are potraiting it as if salman khan has done nothing wrong and it is good news he got bail.:pullhair:

WTF happened to us Indians.:ashamed:
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
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It is standard practice to not name a community. It is sad, when this is not done. Not naming is a good idea. The miscreants are not representative of any community, they are just troublemakers.

Stop being paranoid and scared.

To solve this problem, we need someone to grill the population and not have lazy, indisciplined people working who don't care about their jobs. You have to get rid of the chalta hai attitude, which I don't see happening. All the systems and practices in place have actually been deteriorating since independence.
 

vkl

Cyborg Agent
Well most of our MSM channels don't follow this practice..they do make things worse and pick up selectively biased or misleading cases while ignoring quite severe cases at times.

Before independence thing were not proper as well.
 

Anorion

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Education system was much better. This is at least the root of the solution if not the problem. Standards for awarding degrees were higher.

Our books, movies, magazines and newspapers quality of content has been steadily declining over the years.

Media houses don't fact check. They publish stuff from twitter and whatsapp without even finding out. Publications don't care about their reputation. Indians don't have an ego when it comes to these matters.
 

vkl

Cyborg Agent
Not really..depends on perspectives and who you ask
If you were to read books like "case for india" by William Durant and the 5 volumes by Dharampal..on how social and economic structures were back then..it wasn't really a very fair system.
Probably one of the most inconsiderate and barbaric system.
Also you have to remember some of the newspapers back then were started by likes of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and other freedom fighters which would have given a significant chance to voice opinions.

Also while no-fact checking is prevalent..deliberate misleading is very much there in recent years/decade.While Social Media has got some false and misleading campaigns but to a large extent they also expose the lies and bias of mainstream media.
 

Anorion

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yes. You are talking of Kesari perhaps. There were more before that as well, Chandrika, Mirat Ul Akbar and Bombay Darpan. Newspapers have existed since 1800s here. Even Indians adopted the practices of the British, and followed their templates. At one time our media was as good as any in terms of technology and professionalism, which is no longer the case. The British and Indian press actually worked together to reform Indian society. The media was responsible for all that social change, and look what they are doing now, publishing rumors and useless news. Would not be surprised if they start publishing image macros.

Even Mahatma Gandhi was a Journalist, his newspaper was called Young India.

Also while no-fact checking is prevalent..deliberate misleading is very much there in recent years/decade.While Social Media has got some false and misleading campaigns but to a large extent they also expose the lies and bias of mainstream media.
yup, but the newspapers reaches so many more people, those without Internet, those without twitter, and those people actually trust it. Yes, social media also debunks the myths that it propagates. Agree with that, but wish it were more effective at debunking than propagating.

one danger of social media is that it is unregulated as far as misinformation and autopropaganda is concerned, which tends to spread the fear and paranoia, and traditional media is either feeding off this, and/or is as clueless.
 

gagan_kumar

Wise Old Owl
imo there is no body to monitor press atm, so there should be some organization that comes over it...

at the moment Indian press is enjoying (exploiting) uninterrupted freedom...... They are misguiding whole nation by giving people false news , bended truths and facts....

Media should be like doordarshan , which has 0 glamour and gave only the facts , no opinions and no other drama on news bullshit.......
 

vkl

Cyborg Agent
yes. You are talking of Kesari perhaps. There were more before that as well, Chandrika, Mirat Ul Akbar and Bombay Darpan. Newspapers have existed since 1800s here. Even Indians adopted the practices of the British, and followed their templates. At one time our media was as good as any in terms of technology and professionalism, which is no longer the case. The British and Indian press actually worked together to reform Indian society. The media was responsible for all that social change, and look what they are doing now, publishing rumors and useless news. Would not be surprised if they start publishing image macros.

Even Mahatma Gandhi was a Journalist, his newspaper was called Young India.


yup, but the newspapers reaches so many more people, those without Internet, those without twitter, and those people actually trust it. Yes, social media also debunks the myths that it propagates. Agree with that, but wish it were more effective at debunking than propagating.

one danger of social media is that it is unregulated as far as misinformation and autopropaganda is concerned, which tends to spread the fear and paranoia, and traditional media is either feeding off this, and/or is as clueless.




Most of the Indian history that people today read are a mixed things..majority of which comes from british colonial and leftists(old and modern) opinions
While many parts have been given more importance,many things have been left out deliberately including the good and bad of all sides.

Social Media is a hard thing to monitor..some regulation is needed.some of which is already there but how effective is a different thing..
Although for news many multiple sources with cross-verification sort of becomes necessary..some of which are news websites/blogs which put up documented evidence.
People relying on hearsay..or a biased mind can easily be trapped.
Social media sort of became the only major medium that could be used exposed the big media houses very effectively.Also many politicians and so called "experts" and "analysts" get exposed at times.
 

GhorMaanas

The Vagrant Seeker
another work of 'art' from IE....this cottage-industry is on despo-mode it seems:

Dalit village wonders, if Modi govt’s help will ever reach us | The Indian Express
 

GhorMaanas

The Vagrant Seeker
^^ MediaCrooks is a sort of veteran in this. OpIndia is another such portal (a relatively new smart kid on the block), dilineating reality from vile propaganda. the spin-off sample i shared above is titrated there against actuality & the bluff effectively ascertained, outlined, called out.
 
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