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What a difference a day made

It sang out across channels: ‘Singh is king, Singh is king’, a salute Manmohan Singh last heard after the nuclear vote of confidence last summer. Suddenly, he was the flavour of the day, once more. Aaj Tak neatly summed up the election result in a graphic of the ‘weakest Prime Minister’ with a ....Read more

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TV Channels and ELECTION RESULTS:By: TV Kumar | Sunday , 24 May '09 21:12:10 PM Reply | Forward For an excellent analysis by IE veteran columnist on media and election results, Shailja deserves kudos. However, the author missed mentioning certain apparent bias shown by a popular TV Channel's senior reporters to suggest the leanings towards a particular party. Journalistic norms say that they should just present 'news' and facts devoid of their personal likes/dislikes/leanings if any?

phony cacophonyBy: B.V.SHENOY | Wednesday , 20 May '09 19:27:44 PM Reply | Forward Dwaraknath above is right. One "expert" editor on the panel of Timesnow channel called Jaswanth Singh anti-national, just because Jaswanth has espoused the cause of the Gorkhaland state, which this expert believed is secessionist! This editor was too happy, though too early and hasty that he declared Jaswanth Singh defeated!!

Polls and journalismBy: G.Dwarakanath | Wednesday , 20 May '09 11:17:32 AM Reply | Forward Two points are missing in this otherwise excellent summing up of how the news channels covered the election results. The anchors made an absolute nuisance of of themselves. They made us feel that just the results on the screes were enough and not their noisy analyses. The other point is total lack of objectivity. What is it, many may ask. Go to a library and see how the newspapers reported election results upto the 1967 elections. Many stalwarts often lost the poll, but no newspaper reported that they bit the dust and so on. They remained prominent and were respected as before. Jyoti Basu or Advani cannot become non-entities because of electoral reverses nor can Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi become instant geniuses. It is sad to see the psychophancy and partisanship that mark the reporting of elections today.

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