Tag Archives: Zee News
There’s a scientistic eclipse
There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual participating in amplifying nonsense. It’s prima facie not nonsense in and of itself but because it’s not qualified as astrological material. That is, it’s an example of news … Continue reading
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Tagged Indigenous peoples, knowledge system, rationalism, Renny Thomas, right wing, scientism, solar eclipse, Zee News
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On the NBDSA opinion against Zee News
On April 5, JNU PhD student Shehla Rashid tweeted that the National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Agency (NBDSA) had ordered Zee News to remove links to a show it had broadcast in November 2020, alleging that Rashid was indulging in “anti-national … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged democracy, journalism, NBDSA, objectivity, Shehla Rashid, Sudhir Chaudhary, Zee News
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Stenograph the science down
Is it that we’re paying no attention to the science and instead reproducing statements line by line because they’re made of gold? Continue reading
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Tagged IANS, Indian Space Research Organisation, journalism, newspapers, RLV-TD, science writing, Zee News
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