“He who lives by other people’s WhatsApp chats shall be judged by his own WhatsApp chats.”—old jungle saying *** For weeks, after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, India’s TV news channels feasted on crumbs fed to them—leaked transcripts of WhatsApp conversations of stars and upstarts, hinting darkly at murder, extortion, drugs and sex, all in the run-up to the assembly elections due in…
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J-POD || Podcast || “Republic doesn’t need to fix TV ratings. Even if all rigging is removed, Arnab Goswami will still be No.1. If Aaj Tak gets defeated, it can’t make a comeback” || Aunindyo Chakravarty
https://soundcloud.com/user-311470525/aunindyo One of the great miracles in Indian television is that every new news channel manages to overtake the incumbent market leader in a matter of weeks. First NDTV overtook Headlines Today soon after launch. Then CNN-IBN overtook NDTV. Later Times Now overtook CNN-IBN. And finally Republic overtook Times Now within days. The reason for…
Arnab Goswami dares ‘Aaj Tak’ and ‘ABP’ and ‘Zee News’ and ‘India TV’ on eve of ‘Republic Bharat’ launch: why did you not break any of the big stories in the last few years?
Ahead of the launch of the Hindi news channel ‘Republic Bharat’, Arnab Goswami, the founder and editor-in-chief of Republic TV, dares existing Hindi channels. In this screengrab running on the channel, Goswami asks why English TV news channels have broken most of the big stories in the last few years. See a shorter version of the…
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