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A body created to flag violations of the programming and advertising code seems to have turned into the ruling party’s ‘media cell’, keeping tabs on critical coverage.
Editor's note: July 2018 marked Punya Prasun Bajpai’s fourth month at ABP News. It was also his last. On 6 July, the seasoned television journalist ran a momentous fact-check on his prime-time show “Master Stroke”. It was about a government programme aired in June that year, where a farmer from Chhattisgarh had told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that her income had doubled after a scheme was introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party government. The timing of the programme was crucial. Chhattisgarh was only five months away from an assembly election. But Bajpai was on to something. He sent a reporter to Chhattisgarh. The farmer told the news channel that her income had not doubled at all. In fact, it had remained stagnant, she said, making the government scheme seem irrelevant. The village chief alleged that she was coached by government officials to lie before the cameras. Bajpai ran the story soon after. Meanwhile, 10 kilometres away from the ABP News studio in Noida, on the tenth floor of the Soochna Bhawan in Delhi’s Lodhi Road, a staffer at a government-created media monitoring …
The bill, if passed, could allow the government to have more control not just over the kind of content that gets published but also in choosing who is subject to such regulation.
The chairman emeritus of the troubled media conglomerate is once again calling the shots—firing people and overturning business plans.
A confused strategy, financial decline and a fast-changing sector seem to have triggered the media behemoth to revisit its business here.
