Media Bias in India

Media
Bias in
India
GROUP 9
AMAN KUMAR 20BCY10051
MAHEE PRAVINDRA JATTU 20BCY10064
KABIR DHRUW 20BCY10077
HARSH MODI 20BCY10078
ADITYA MAHESHWARI 20BCY10123
ABHISHEK SHUKLA 20BCY10124
K LEELA PAVAN KUMAR 20BCY10132
ASHUTOSH DUBEY 20BCY10149
NITYA NAND JHA 20BCY10163 (PPT AND
Introduction
 Each society and culture has a unique world

view.
 News media reflect the world view of the
culture for which they write.
 To be critical consumer of the news, one must
understand that the truth is much more
complicated than what appears from just one
perspective.
Critical and Uncritical mind
Uncritical mind Critical Mind
 “It’s true if I believe it.”  “I believe it, but it may not be

 “It’s true if we believe it.” true.”
 “We believe it, but we may
 “It’s true if we want to
be wrong.”
believe it”
 “We want to believe it, but
 “It’s true if it serves our
we may be prejudiced by our
vested interest to believe desire.”
it”
 “It serves our vested interest
to believe it, but our vested
interest has nothing to do
with the truth.”
Mainstream news coverage operates
with the following maxims
 “This is how it appears to us from our point of view;
therefore, this is the way it is.”
 “These are the facts that support our way of looking
at this; therefore, these are the most important
facts.”
 “These countries are friendly to us; therefore, these
countries deserve praise.”
 “These countries are unfriendly to us; therefore,
these countries deserve criticism.”
 “These are the stories most interesting or sensational
to our readers; therefore, these are the most
important stories in the news.”
How has the
news media
changed over
time?
Period Media
Pre-Independent British controlled media
25th June 1975(Emergency) During the Emergency, 3,801 newspapers were confiscated,
327 journalists were jailed under MISA law and government
advertisements were discontinued in 290 newspapers.
1995 Entry of Private mass media

ZEE news became the first private mass media company
9th September 2001(9/11) First time Indian media covered International news on mass
level
21st Century Swarm of private media and Age of social media
 ➢ 19th century:
 ■ Newspapers were extremely partisan, and they were often affiliated with political parties or
political figures.
 ➢ 20th century:
 ■ In the 20th century, only few networks existed.
 ■ Televised news was considered a public service
 ■ Fairness Doctrine -- the news was required to be objective.
Case Study
 Sameer is a young guy living in India while
watching news channels he found that some
news channels are directly-indirectly supporting
some political ideology, he even heard some
terms like “Godi media”(left leaning to others) ,
“Chatukar media”(right leaning to left leaning),
Dalal media e.t.c
 Illustrate Today’s media …
 How can fragmentation lead to bias?
 Explain Democracy and News media
 What are objectivity requirements that Sameer
or anyone else need to have?
Today’s media
Media Today
 ➢ The news is mixed with gossip, opinion, hot
takes, and branded content, from many different
sources but often through a single platform
 ➢ Some Research Center found that the news
environment is very reliant on original content
created by traditional newsrooms
 ➢ Money driven; influenced by stockholders →
sensationalism, opinionated articles
 ➢ More democracy, more sources of news
How can
fragmentation lead to
bias?
 ➢ In the 20th century, news came from a limited number of
sources, and news didn’t exist on a 24 hour cycle.
■ Now, with the presence of a 24 hour news cycle,
networks are forced to fill up a lot of time.
■ People choose to watch “fluff” news instead of news
about things like policy
■ The existence of more news sources means that news
companies have to compete for views
 ➢ With the rise of cable news, and the decline of the

Fairness Doctrine, it opened up the door to opinionated
reporting.
■ This opinionated reported can sometimes come off as
being biased, especially when there is not a clear line drawn
between what is opinion and what is factual
Example of Fragmentation
 ➢ Up to 60% of people say they get their news from
Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or any social media.
 ➢ Social media has an algorithm that ranks your feed by
what you are most likely to find interesting (and thus click
on)
This can create an “echo chamber”
 ■ This can also create more polarization because people
are so used to being reaffirmed in their beliefs and are rarely
challenged
 ➢ Shifting from just a few news sources to many has made
us vulnerable to bias
Now, people can read opinionated reporting and perceive it
as fact.
Democracy
and the News
Media
 Democracy can be an effective form of
government only to the extent that the public
is well-informed about national and
international events and can think
independently and critically about those
events.
 Citizens must be able to detect ideology,

slant, spin, and propaganda in order to
determine what media messages have to be
supplemented, counter-balanced, or thrown
out entirely.
Transforming the influence Myths That Obscure the Logic of the
News Media
of media
 Critically assess, rather  Fact and opinion are clearly
than mindlessly accept separated in news
news.  There is an objective
 Citizens must be more reality that can be reported
independent, insightful,  What is unusual (novel,
and critical
odd, bizarre) is news; what
is usual is not
Objectivity
Requires
 Identifying the point of view from which a
given news story is constructed.
 Identifying the audience for which the news
story is written.
 Recognizing what points of view are negated
or ignored.
 Distinguishing facts behind the interpretation
and spin.
 Seek out multiple sources of credible
information.
Bias in main stream Indian Media
NDTV (use to call others “Godi media”)
V/s
Republic TV
(Use to call others “Chatukar media or tak media”)
 It depends on which side of the spectrum you are in.
1. If you support NDA and Right wing politics then the Republic
TV may be slightly better for you.
2. However if you are a UPA, Left wing or communist supporter
then you will admire NDTV.
3. The presentation of both NDTV and Republic TV is world class
whereas the content may be way below par.
4. The problem with NDTV is that they like to project majority
population as villains most of the time, and try to sensationalise
the news. Some of the issues they try to cover may sound
supporting enemy countries to a great extent. Also promoter of
NDTV is related to an ex General Secretary of CPI(M).
5. The problem of Republic TV is that they like to praise NDA
even for wrong and they use to support directly or indirectly right
wing parties in elections. The anchors on Republic TV easily
blame someone as antinational or antihindu without any proof
Left leaning media Right leaning media
 NDTV  Republic Network
 The Print  ABP
 The Quint  Sudarshan news
 The Telegraph  India TV
 Al-Jajeera  Aaj Tak
 BBC  ABP News
 ABP Ananda  Zee News
 News 24 (owned by Congress  Times Now
leader Rajiv Shukla)  India TV
 CNN IBN  News nation
 India Today  Zee media
Note:- In India, Left leaning media is oftenly called as Librandu

media, Dalal media, Lutyans media and Chatukar media by right
wing whereas Right leaning media is oftenly called as Godi media,
Bikau media, Modi media by left wing
Summary
 No culture lives up to the image, it projects of
itself
 Most Indian consumers self-image as
defenders of human rights, individual
freedom, democratic values, and social
justice is unquestionably justified.
 Most do not seek out dissenting stories
 Higher patriotism is possible through
constructive criticism helping the nation
become more of what it has promised to be.
Conclusion and Group Opinion
 There’s nothing wrong for any News Channel in supporting a
certain party or certain ideology as long as its their business. But,
spreading lies, fake news and running their own propaganda is
completely wrong and doesn't qualify as journalism. So, its on
viewers who have a choice viewers who have a choice to watch
which channel.
 Media has to be critical of the government as well praise
government for their good work. Media will be maligned and will be
accused for many things but they should work with center ideology.
 Those who most loudly denounce the fake news are typically the
ones who most aggressively disseminating it.
 We’re not litigating here who’s right and who’s wrong but we would
like to advice you that do research on any topic before accepting it
blindly just because your favourite news agency is writing or
showing that.
Thank You
Thank You all to give us your precious time and would like to give special
thanks to Dr. Abhay Vidyarthi who’s our faculty also for giving us this
opportunity to work on this real time problem as well as to work on our
intellectual thinking.
We, The whole group 9 would feel very delighted to listen all of your thoughts
and opinions and If anyone has any questions, We’d be happy to open up the
discussion rerply you according to our knowledge and thoughts.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. So please do share
your thoughts, opinion and ask questions if required .
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 Each society and culture has a unique world

 “It’s true if I believe it.”  “I believe it, but it may not be

1995 Entry of Private mass media

21st Century Swarm of private media and Age of social media

 ➢ With the rise of cable news, and the decline of the

 Citizens must be able to detect ideology,

NDTV (use to call others “Godi media”)

Note:- In India, Left leaning media is oftenly called as Librandu

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