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    • Shailaja Bajpai Tags : Manmohan Singh Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 0001 hrs

    The magic box, screen call it what you will, made an impressive debut on all channels. It was a touch away from the itching fingers of TV anchors — though it didn’t always respond to stimuli. NDTV’s touch map was an eco-friendly green but you couldn’t see anything. Still, it was a good beginning. 

    On Sunday, Praful Patel suggested on NDTV 24x7 that TV news coverage of the elections had been ‘entertainment’. That it was: we enjoyed the tamasha, but did you ever feel, during the entire coverage that you knew what the mood was in the country?

    shailaja.bajpai@expressindia.com

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    TV Channels and ELECTION RESULTS:By: TV Kumar | 24-May-2009 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 | 20-May-2009 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 | 20-May-2009 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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