Hafta 90: Karan Johar’s apology, TRP wars & the state of India’s health sector

Times Now editor in chief, Arnab Goswami gets ‘Y’ category security, news channels at loggerheads for television ratings, Arnab declares his show to be the greatest and to shed some more light on it, joining us is Sandeep Bhushan, TV journalist and a regular media critic. Madhu Trehan, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Anand Ranganathan and Vivek Gopal along with our guest, discuss & dissect Karan Johar’s apology, the fire in a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, the sorry state of the health sector in India and if it should be privatised? Shouldn’t the buck stop with the government? All this and a lot more on this episode of NL Hafta. We also have a song dedicated to Donald Trump from his Hindu supporters.

For references:

1. A Review of #NLHafta from Aditya Rakheja, Divya Swaminathan and Soumyadeep Ghosh
2. Foreign Policy:Welcome to Donald Trump’s America
3. Newslaundry: Inconvenient Judgments – Part 1, part 2
4. Rolling Stone: Journalist Amy Goodman Shouldn’t Be Arrested for Covering Dakota Pipeline Story
5. The New Yorker: An Ex-Cop’s Remorse
6. Newslaundry: Arnab’s The Newshour with Arnab Goswami is the greatest
7. WNYC podcast: Death, Sex & Money

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