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On its ‘India at 9′ programme last night (December 16, 2010) CNN-IBN had posted viewer feedback in course of its debate on whether lobbying should be legalised. This viewer feedback was wrongly attributed to Twitter accounts. We deeply regret the error and apologise for the same. We will take all steps to ensure that this [...]

I was watching the programme ‘Should Lobbying be Legalised’ a debate chaired and moderated by Rajdeep Sardesai in CNN-IBN’s website. The Programme was aired on 16/12/2010 and was available in the CNN-IBN website. Customarily in such programmes they run Twitter comments to reflect from social media supposedly to show what the public believe and say.  [...]

   Picture: Nira Radia,  Vir Sanghvi and Burkha Dutt The Niira Radia episode raises questions about the boundary between legitimate news gathering, lobbying and influence peddling. The publication of taped conversations between Niira Radia — a lobbyist for Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata with a keen interest in the allocation of ministerial portfolios — and editors, [...]

The Hindu newspaper has exhibited bias in the case of Arundhati Roys speech on J&K. Arundhati Roy on Oct 21 had said in a conference “Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this.” BJP, the main opposition party of India had strongly [...]

While analyzing the Headley episode,  The Hindu, prominent Indian news paper, exhibits anti Indian bias.  It views US with suspicion, blames Indian intellegence agencies but not Pakistan.  It still maintains that Pakistan involvement has insufficient evidence to believe. Excerpts from the last paragraph of the Editorial But there is still no evidence to conclude that [...]

    The Shiv Sena’s annual rally at Shivaji Park saw the English newspapers playing into the hands of Thackeray as they `roared’, `slammed’ and `passionately hit out’ to his tune.  A high decibel delivery from the ageing tiger has set the war drums beating again, reports GEETA SESHU reports in The Hoot. The journalists [...]