Manufacturing news
June 05, 2013  14:46
News studios have gradually become the site where news is "manufactured". Indeed, the very definition of "news" has changed as Indian television networks become increasingly promoter-driven.

There are severe cutbacks in news gathering, reporters have been marginalised and the focus has shifted to studio-driven news presentations with outside "experts". From his perspective as a former television reporter, the writer analyses the current state of broadcast media. Read
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