Lies and Rumors spread by Indian media

[TigerKing]

For news and opinions I watch these.. TV Channel and YouTube Channels..

NDTV channels
BBC (regional news channel). (BBC World Service - Wikipedia)
(But sometimes it feels like same old masala news)
*www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbGQNou2GBFAi_fnMP2_4A
Dhruv Rathee (His interview on TV)

 

[billubakra]

Check this
Official PeeingHuman

For news and opinions I watch these.. TV Channel and YouTube Channels..

NDTV channels
BBC (regional news channel). (BBC World Service - Wikipedia)
(But sometimes it feels like same old masala news)
*www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbGQNou2GBFAi_fnMP2_4A
Dhruv Rathee (His interview on TV)

 

[Engineer.AI]

Tell all your friends to just STOP watching cable news completely, and start following independent news outlets instead. A lot of boomers get their news from social media as it is. Tell them to please stop following mainstream news outlets
~Engineer.ai

 

[billubakra]

Tell all your friends to just STOP watching cable news completely, and start following independent news outlets instead. A lot of boomers get their news from social media as it is. Tell them to please stop following mainstream news outlets
~Engineer.ai

Especially arnab goswami, sudhir chaudhary, amish devgan (no my dear friend lol), anjana modi kashyap.

 

[whitestar_999]

Especially arnab goswami, sudhir chaudhary, amish devgan (no my dear friend lol), anjana modi kashyap.

May be but it is never a good idea to completely shun mainstream media because they have credibility(if not all of them but then nothing in this world got that). A newspaper publish a news(talking about print media) with liabilities attached so they can't just talk out of air without any reasonable basis else they would face many court cases & risk of huge losses. Compared to that social media is nothing,they may be considered as a good side source but only believe them when at least there are some mainstream media backing it. Believing social media news completely is a recipe for disaster for any democracy.

 

[billubakra]

May be but it is never a good idea to completely shun mainstream media because they have credibility(if not all of them but then nothing in this world got that). A newspaper publish a news(talking about print media) with liabilities attached so they can't just talk out of air without any reasonable basis else they would face many court cases & risk of huge losses. Compared to that social media is nothing,they may be considered as a good side source but only believe them when at least there are some mainstream media backing it. Believing social media news completely is a recipe for disaster for any democracy.

The four of the above which I have mentioned should be ignored. One can watch someone like Ravish Kumar, though he also has his own set of haters.

 

[whitestar_999]

The four of the above which I have mentioned should be ignored. One can watch someone like Ravish Kumar, though he also has his own set of haters.

I say watch everyone & then decide,in fact I say don't even watch & just read ToI & Hindu. Both of them covers everything from far right to far left.

 

[TigerKing]

Decision making became so hard now a days..

 

[Engineer.AI]

May be but it is never a good idea to completely shun mainstream media because they have credibility(if not all of them but then nothing in this world got that). A newspaper publish a news(talking about print media) with liabilities attached so they can't just talk out of air without any reasonable basis else they would face many court cases & risk of huge losses. Compared to that social media is nothing,they may be considered as a good side source but only believe them when at least there are some mainstream media backing it. Believing social media news completely is a recipe for disaster for any democracy.

If talking SOLELY on credibility, cable news is woefully lacking on that regard - they're only one step above Social Media news (and that's not saying much). Independent outlets like the WIRE and Quint have some really dedicated reporting and analysis. A friend of mine pointed out that something like ZEE News is free on all DTH's, but NDTV is paid... makes you question why state sponsored channels get the preferential treatment, while dissenting ones do not.
~Engineer.AI

 

[whitestar_999]

If talking SOLELY on credibility, cable news is woefully lacking on that regard - they're only one step above Social Media news (and that's not saying much). Independent outlets like the WIRE and Quint have some really dedicated reporting and analysis. A friend of mine pointed out that something like ZEE News is free on all DTH's, but NDTV is paid... makes you question why state sponsored channels get the preferential treatment, while dissenting ones do not.
~Engineer.AI

That's why I get my news only from reading printed newspapers like ToI & Hindu.

 

[Engineer.AI]

That's why I get my news only from reading printed newspapers like ToI & Hindu.

Print media should be appreciated a bit more more than it actually is. These people are the backbone of the journalism industry.

 

[Nerevarine]

TOI website has some of the most vile comments I have ever read. Be prepared to lose a few braincells whenever you reach the comment section

 

[whitestar_999]

TOI website has some of the most vile comments I have ever read. Be prepared to lose a few braincells whenever you reach the comment section

I know,I sometimes read them for amusement

 

[mastercool8695]

For serious stuff (things that the TV news just expresses their view on, instead of telling us exactly what is contained in a publication by the govt, any ministry, a company, etc), I try to search for original source (the pdf version of the notice/report in question).

But I find it difficult to find it everytime.
Also, quite a lot of the stuff is just not available in the form of proper notices. The TV news media gets it from their sources (which is sometimes whatsapp forwards).

What I really hate about TV news is two things mostly. One, that they present their views only (most of the times). News is not supposed to use qualitative adjectives from their own thinking. Second, they just take up one thing, and keep their heads inside that only. Even those top 100, 80, 50 news item sequences are mostly focused towards some news items instead of reporting all of the hapoenings in an equal manner. They just do it really stupid (supposed to be catchy) rhyming headlines and sentences.

I now think media can never be de-polluted now. How to find out who's telling the truth? And who's making stuff up / focussing on one thing, in order to take our minds off something?.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. But I find no one media source which is unbiased. Either they support something or they are against something. Why not just deliver the news and let the public make their own views.

 

[whitestar_999]

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. But I find no one media source which is unbiased. Either they support something or they are against something. Why not just deliver the news and let the public make their own views.

Read print newspapers like Hindu, Times of India, Business Times etc while keeping the following in mind: Hindu is left leaning/socialist leaning while ToI is right leaning/pro-capitalism. Read both & you will get a balanced view & then decide as per your own preference.

Right leaning here means true right leaning which is pro-capitalism/pro-entrepreneurship & not the fake right wing parties in India which despite claiming opposition to left/liberal parties always agree with left on this point of capitalism/big business/foreign investment is bad & to be only considered as a last resort option. Similarly true left/liberal is one which criticizes all religions irrespective of their size & not like fake left in India which is quick to criticize majority religion but very slow/sympathetic to minorities. In short, forget about fake news, the entire political system of India is based on fake ideologies so definitely trust no political party or political leader.

 

[Nerevarine]

For serious stuff (things that the TV news just expresses their view on, instead of telling us exactly what is contained in a publication by the govt, any ministry, a company, etc), I try to search for original source (the pdf version of the notice/report in question).

But I find it difficult to find it everytime.
Also, quite a lot of the stuff is just not available in the form of proper notices. The TV news media gets it from their sources (which is sometimes whatsapp forwards).

What I really hate about TV news is two things mostly. One, that they present their views only (most of the times). News is not supposed to use qualitative adjectives from their own thinking. Second, they just take up one thing, and keep their heads inside that only. Even those top 100, 80, 50 news item sequences are mostly focused towards some news items instead of reporting all of the hapoenings in an equal manner. They just do it really stupid (supposed to be catchy) rhyming headlines and sentences.

I now think media can never be de-polluted now. How to find out who's telling the truth? And who's making stuff up / focussing on one thing, in order to take our minds off something?.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. But I find no one media source which is unbiased. Either they support something or they are against something. Why not just deliver the news and let the public make their own views.

TV news is irreversibly lost yes, but tbh local news here in odisha is much better. Im not sure about other states but they have done a good job.
Also local news papers are good too without any agenda.

 

[Desmond]

IMO TV News has become a TRP game. The bottom line is ad revenue and their reporting is all centered towards this end. Print media I think does not have such a motivation, at least not to the same extent as TV and therefore are more trustworthy.

 

[topgear]

IMO TV News has become a TRP game. The bottom line is ad revenue and their reporting is all centered towards this end. Print media I think does not have such a motivation, at least not to the same extent as TV and therefore are more trustworthy.

Even print media is spoiled to get govt. Ads they need to balance between political parties in state and center ..

 

[whitestar_999]

Even print media is spoiled to get govt. Ads they need to balance between political parties in state and center ..

Yes but they are in much better situation compared to TV channels because of the difference in nature of their audience. Those who read newspaper(& by that I mean non-entertainment sections) tend to be a bit more logical than those who rely solely on tv channels/social media/whatsapp & they kind of stick to a particular newspaper or newspapers irrespective of other options.

 

[topgear]

Yes but they are in much better situation compared to TV channels because of the difference in nature of their audience. Those who read newspaper(& by that I mean non-entertainment sections) tend to be a bit more logical than those who rely solely on tv channels/social media/whatsapp & they kind of stick to a particular newspaper or newspapers irrespective of other options.

yes, news paper is still better for vast coverage of different news which online / tv media fails to show .. they have the resource but are more focused on certain topic / news only. Actually watching news on TV / Online gives me headache .. but there are some good ones like BBc World News, Wion News and couple online websites of news channels like Bloomberg, Market Watch etc.