Basant Kumar and Ashwine Kumar Singh of Newslaundry are joined by freelance journalist Anand Dutta in this episode. They discuss Anand’s BBC report on how a school in Jharkhand’s Korwadih village became the subject of fake news. Headlines suggested that Muslims in the area had pressured the school to change its manner of praying. Anand said the principal of the school denied the claim. “The news that went out was fake and was written with the writer’s own perception of the situation and not facts,” Anand says.
Anand also discusses his video report on how an athlete, Supriti Kashyap, from Jharkhand was close to missing a competition in Columbia because she didn’t have proper running shoes. Anand’s report helped her get help from not just civil society organisations, but the state government as well.
They also discuss Ashwine’s story on a Comptroller and Auditor General of India report claiming that the Aam Aadmi Party government has spent only five percent of the money it received for the welfare of the labour community.
“It shows the lack of transparency and responsibility from the Aam Aadmi Party, even though they know about the degrading situation of the labour force,” Ashwine says.
This and a lot more as they talk about what made news, what didn’t, and what shouldn’t have.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:50 - Fake news on Jharkhand school
00:26:10 - Athlete Supriti Kashyap’s struggle
00:34:15 - AAP government’s expenditure on labour community
00:48:52 - Recommendations
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