Daily Archives: 6 April 2020

“Mainstream Media is coming back into its own in the age of #Coronavirus. What people everywhere want is reliable information and they are turning to the trusted providers”

6 April 2020

https://soundcloud.com/user-311470525/j-pod-ex-bbc-broadcaster #Coronavirus has changed the media landscape across countries and continents like nothing else before. In this podcast interview, Dr Andrew Whitehead, the former BBC broadcaster and historian, talks of the damage it has wrought in Britain—and what it holds for journalists worldwide. As job losses and salary cuts loom, he has a word of…

How Hindi newspapers in the “cow belt”, force-multipliers of the BJP in the North, lent wholesale legitimacy to Narendra Modi’s cringe-worthy #9pm9minutes photo-op

6 April 2020

Media scholars believe that the rise of newspaper circulation in the “Hindi heartland”, disparagingly known as the cow belt, is concomitant with the rise and growth of the BJP on the back of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement leading to the demolition of the Babri masjid in Ayodhya. Certainly, the reforms of 1991 helped in making…