STANDPOINT by Atique Naqvi

Most Indian news organizations are owned by corporations with a diverse business and political interests A large section of Indian news media spreads hate and misinformation every day and tramples upon the country's cultural plurality hurting the image of PM Narendra Modi's government. Prime-time shouting matches on major Indian TV news channels, an overdose of jingoistic nationalism, war-like reporting, compound hate speech, and fear-mongering news reports have made most of the news TV unwatchable. These networks could also be harming Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led federal government in India. The US right-leaning network Fox News pales in comparison to India’s privately-owned and self-proclaimed rightist TV networks such as Republic TV (English, Hindi), Times Now (English), Zee News (Hindi), India TV (Hindi), News India (Hindi) and Sudarshan TV (Hindi). Though Fox News is a little bit fair and a little bit balanced [Fair and Balanced is Fox News’s slo...

Social media is something very impressive due to the sheer numbers involved, said Maurice Levy. "Of the 500 million Facebook subscribers around the world, some 200 million post something on their pages every day. This cannot be ignored," he said in 2011. The interview was published in the March 2011 issue of the Dubai-based magazine TRENDS - An International Magazine on Arab Affairs. Below is the jpeg file of the TRENDS magazine.

If Tunisia and Egypt become fully-fledged democracies, that will change many things as far as media is concerned, said Jamal Khashoggi, the then editor-in-chief of [now defunct] Al Waleed 24-hr News channel. "It is yet to be seen how a democratic Egypt would affect the rest of the region and what it will take from other corners of the Arab world such as Dubai and Bahrain. Egypt could become the hub of Arab media once again." The interview was published in the March 2011 issue of the Dubai-based magazine TRENDS - An International Magazine on Arab Affairs. Below is the jpeg file of the TRENDS magazine.