It was World Press Freedom Day on May 3 and we kick off this week’s Hafta with a discussion on the current state of media in India, especially the television news media — did Arnab Goswami kill TV journalism? Atul Chaurasia, executive editor at Newslaundry, joins the regular Hafta gang of Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan and Manisha Pande to discuss the Aam Aadmi Party fiasco and the murder of a Muslim man in Bulandshehar by alleged Hindu Yuva Vahini members. The team also discusses Justice CS Karnan’s non-bailable warrants against seven Supreme court judges and Hasan Minhaj’s performance at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Oh, and we have three song dedications this week!
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For reference:
- A review of #NLHafta from Dheeraj Bhandary and Sneha Uplekar
- A review of #NLHafta from Anirudh Agrawal
- Newslaundry: #WorldPressFreedomDay: TOI and ET delete reports on India’s low rank on the WPF index
- World Press Freedom Day: Indian Media Truly Free?
- DNA: Is media actually free from all boundations in India?
- Newslaundry: Farook And The Art of Selectivity
- Livemint: Women in the ‘right wing’
- Anand Ranganathan’s tweet on Manu Joseph’s Mint column, Women in the Right Wing.
- DNA: What women think of Narendra Modi
- Newslaundry: Demonetisation And The Soured Milk Of Human Kindness
- Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologue
- Scroll.in: The story of a lynching: Why a mob killed two suspected cattle thieves in cold blood in Assam
- TIME: The Play-by-Play of President Trump’s Call to the International Space Station You Were Waiting for
- Ethical Journalism Network: Fake News: It’s Not Bad Journalism, it’s the Business of Digital Communications
- New Scientist: Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work
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