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Bengal Tigers Two Bengali dailies that came out with editorial honour intact in the Cobrapost sting operation were Kolkata’s Bartaman and Agartala’s Dainik Sambad. While Dainik Sambad has been pret...

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Reliance on Media With his acquisition of the Network 18 group in 2014 from Raghav Bahl, which included a bouquet of channels, including CNN-IBN, CNBC TV18 and IBN7, among others, Mukesh Ambani bec...

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Absurd Claim NDTV founder Prannoy Roy is no stranger to vile attacks from right-wing trolls on social media but he must certainly have been left laughing his guts out at the absurdity of a message ...

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Amrita Rai’s comeback After an eight-month-long sabbatical, veteran scribe and wife of Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh, Amrita Rai will now be back in her journalistic avatar to head a d...

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Tossing It Back The Principal Information Officer of the government is normally a pliable, servile babu who is ever eager to dance to the tunes of the master of the day. But Frank Noronha, who reti...

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Spinning out of control Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s spin doctors had a vice-like grip on all the media events orchestrated during his London visit to continue propagating his rockstar foreign im...

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NO, Sarkar! The news and current affairs channel NDTV 24X7, run by Prannoy and Radhika Roy, has never been a favourite watch for the Establishment because of its brutally candid approach to news a...

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Crime Watch The worst possible news for journalists lay in these grim statistics: Since 2015, there have been 142 attacks on mediapersons in India. No less than 70 journalists were killed between 1...

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Faking and Shaking The widespread outrage over the Smriti Irani-inspired proposal to punish mediapersons publishing “fake news”, albeit short-lived, was largely because the bodies that would impose...

The Fourth Estate

Cobra’s Sting The sensational Cobrapost exposé last week has literally caught prominent names in the media with their pants down. The sting, Operation 136, was aired, appropriately, at the Press Club...

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