In India, why would anyone want to be a TV news reporter, when anchors are just fun? Most of them hit the headlines and become famous for distribution Knowledge: Sitting in an air-conditioned studio. Outside, journalists play sound recordists outside the courts – for the Gyanvapi Masjid case or the Qutub Minar case. Yes, it’s unkind, but sadly, true.
When it comes to plum reporting assignments, anchor-editors also have a go-to place. Between ‘Love in Tokyo’ at the quad meet and spring in the Swiss Alps, at the World Economic Forum summit, they are having a great time as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cheerleaders or talking to other Indians.
This is the strangest thing: as reported on social media, news channels go to Davos for the WEF summit and interview Indians. Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal or International Monetary Fund’s Gita Gopinath (India Today), Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai or Adar Poonawalla of Covid Vaccine fame (ndtv24x7some we have seen. This is when the resort is full of billionaires, businessmen and heads of state or governments.
In Tokyo, editor and anchor of republic tv, Till date, TV9 Bharatvarsh, India TV, NDTV 24×7 Celebrated ‘PM ka magic’ (Till date) especially by talking to ‘ecstasy’ Indians (India Today) even when a India TV The reporter did some good reporting and found that people protesting against China did not speak to them. Something similar happened during Prime Minister’s recent visit to Europe,No Japanese, Danes, Germans or French were spoken.
Are Indian television news ‘anti-national’ of other countries?
reach new lows
Back home in India, reporters are doing arm exercises with a microphone. They hold it close to their chest, then put it on people’s faces—lawyers, petitioners, politicians, even Common man-And listen to them with ‘extreme seriousness’, “What happened in court?” Ask basic questions like.
Feather CNN International, bbc world either al JazeeraAnchors interview and listen to their own reporters on the ground and in the studio – The fatal shooting of 19 children on Tuesday in Texas, US, witnessed senior CNN Correspondents, not former policemen or ‘experts’, are analyzing the latest shootings.
Worse yet, Indian TV journalists are often replaced by mobile phones and anonymous studio voiceovers. Similar reports on international channels are always accepted as journalists. But here, the channel ignores the point- historical reports/background on how Aurangzeb hated Hindus (ABP News) and the Mughal invasion of India (India TV) are two such examples of faceless, anonymous voiceover stories.
Then there are the video reports: all reporting on what exists inside the Gyanvapi Masjid is through video camera footage with TV anchors in the studio measuring the ‘Shivalinga-fountain’ and telling us what is – the degree they have since. in archaeology? Similarly, a report on Monday about Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s visit with Kashmiri Pandits was video-reported on a mobile phone, with the studio anchor filling in the text – the same one in ‘PFI Hate’. The young boy goes for the report of the lace’ (times now,
PM Modi is not the only one who has magic. TV news channels have their own magic tricks. Come on from 4 pm to 5 pm, let’s abracadabra-touch And poof! Reporters disappear – when the audience is on their way home and can turn on the TV news for the day’s developments and the reporter delivers news capsules from their beats.
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good time for journalists
The first was the ‘news bulletin’ – it still exists bbc world And al Jazeera – Hour by hour, where journalists deliver news and analysis from their beats. Now ‘Fatafat News’ is in the evening and ‘prime time’ (ABP News) with 200 news stories to be read by a studio anchor, followed by their debates.
So, when are the journalists themselves seen and heard on real news? if you are on news x, The answer is – almost never, because it has the fewest number of reporters. Otherwise, it’s a day when we’re all at work.
Or, when they have to explain the complex legalese in the Qutub Minar case. reporter CNN News 18, India TVAnd India Today Well done here. But it is mostly when there is no court case on temple-mosque issue, tour or PM’s speech that journalists get their share of screen. Wednesday was one such day when ‘The Kapil Sibal Show’ (No) The Kapil Sharma Show) handled daytime broadcasts, and journalists NDTV 24×7, times nowAnd India Today Got plenty of airtime. Election time is good too – a paradise back for journalists who travel and report on election campaigns.
Alternatively, a brutal crime would allow airtime to journalists. Think Lakhimpur Kheri, ‘Chennai Street Murder Spree’ (India Today), or the killing of terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
Coming to Jammu and Kashmir, if you aspire to be a TV reporter, pack your bags and head north – Kashmir is a favorite hotspot for news channels.
Many journalists know their work and when given an opportunity, they do it well. NDTV India‘s evening show`country region’ Seen worrying ground reports on why some parts of the country are facing water crisis and gas cylinders are out of pocket for many rural households. India Today Did well on water shortage too. One ABP News The reporter in Patna very clearly explained the stakes of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s caste census.
If only all journalists were given more respect and airtime….
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