-The Hindu Only 13% “strongly trusted” private TV news channels compared to 31% who said so about newspapers Indian news consumers’ trust in private TV news channels is relatively much lower than their belief in newspapers and yet television continues to be the dominant news source. Notably, their trust in online news websites is lower than even the private channels, while the former is the third preferred source for accessing news after...
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Good news: Editorial on print media remaining the most trusted source of information
-The Telegraph A pan India survey of media consumption by the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, compiled on the basis of responses from 19 states elicits answer The post-truth era is, expectedly, marked by a discerning erosion of public trust in sources of information. Mass media — both traditional and new-age avatars — has borne the brunt of this mistrust. And for good reasons too. Social...
More »Opinion: Food Insecurity - The Story That Won't Make Prime Time News -Derek O'Brien
-NDTV.com Here's a story that won't make the 9 pm news. As per reports in a few regional language newspapers (yes, they still have The Spine), the Union is proposing an increase in the prices of rice, wheat and cereals sold through the National Food Security Act (NFSA) by Rs.7 per kg for Priority Households (PHH). Apparently, NITI Aayog has even recommended that the Food Ministry increases the price for sale to...
More »Writing with Fire and the Problems of Savarna Gaze -Komal Mohite
-TheWire.in The documentary serves as an uncomfortable reminder of how ill-equipped we are to deal with the complex material realities of oppressed communities, especially when they implicate us at a fundamental level. Writing with Fire by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh is another addition to the bourgeoning mainstream media engagement with caste in India. The documentary has garnered accolades – including an (ultimately unsuccessful) Oscar nomination – for its depiction of the...
More »Khabar Lahariya says Oscar-nominated documentary misrepresents its journalistic work -Nandini Ramnath
-Scroll.in The directors of ‘Writing With Fire’ say that they have highlighted the important work done by the women-run collective. Media organisation Khabar Lahariya, the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Writing with Fire, published a statement on its website on Monday claiming that the film’s inaccurately depicts the rural, women-led collective as having “a particular and consuming focus of reporting on one party”. The documentary is “a story which captures a part of...
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