Cabinet reshuffles, who was promoted and who was demoted? Why big media loves to hate Smriti Irani? Has The Telegraph crossed the line with their ‘Spinderella’ headline? Does the government have any business in running the media? Urmilesh, former executive editor of Rajya Sabha TV, joins us for this episode of NL Hafta. The team also discusses Ravish’s open letter to M J Akbar and terror attacks in Bangladesh. Is Zakir Naik being made a scapegoat? All this and a lot more on this episode of Hafta. We also have a song dedicated to our listeners overseas!
For reference:
- A Review Of #NLHafta From Sandeepraj Tandon, Vijay Krishna and Komal Preet Kaur
- Javed Anand’s piece in The Indian Express: Peddling A Gateway Drug
- Amjad Sabri’s Qawalli
- Aatish Taseer’ piece: The Day I Got My Green Card
- Aeon: Is God a silverback
- Madras High Court Judgment on Perumal Murugan and his book Madhorubagan
- Why They Hate Us by Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
- Radio Open Source‘s podcast on The Great British Break-Off
- Prannoy Roy with Ruchir Sharma on NDTV: Is India rising or falling?
- Smriti ‘Spinderella’ Irani is today’s queen of headlines on Newslaundry
- Anand Ranganathan’s piece on Newslaundry: Smriti Irani, what’s going on with your ministry?
- Open Letter To MJ Akbar From Ravish Kumar, Zero TRP Anchor
- Firstpost: Don’t be ‘crass’ like Indian media while covering Lahore attacks! Pak media regulator issues guidelines to local channels
- The Guardian: How the changing media is changing terrorism
- Chase Episode 5: The Last Head Hunter of Longding
- Launch of ‘Hello Testing’: A collaboration between Newslaundry and Consumer VOICE
- Businessworld.in: Arnab Answers The Trolls
- Newslaundry Podcast is now available on Stitcher
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