The Indian media has not covered itself in glory in the past few years. It is seen as furthering government-friendly narratives instead of holding those in power accountable. It has been seen to propagate misinformation, failing in doing its due diligence and conducting raucous shouting matches that are supposed to pass for debates. On a recent TV ‘debate’ show well known news anchor Rahul Shivshankar was seen hectoring and haranguing his guest in a way that has, unfortunately, become par for the course:
In the two-minute video, we see the anchor scolding (a childish choice of word, but fitting nonetheless) his guest nonstop for a minute and a half.
He was scolding who he thought was Mr. McAdams. Only, he was scolding the wrong guy as his guest exasperatedly told him when he was able to get a word in edgeways at the end.
RSS yelled at the wrong person – for a minute and a half.
…Were many.
The Ghajini meme
…Does he, or whoever was responsible for the gaffe still have a job?
Confused, or just poor journalism to get something so basic, so wrong?
What’s that!
Piers Morgan is often someone who brings shame to the very word journalism but he found a lesson here.
Let us move on, it was just a mistake, felt some of the tweeple.
Yes the video is funny, but it is also sad because it demonstrates what our media has become in recent times – bullying anyone that doesn’t toe the line.
Where, who or which one is McAdams?
You don’t know it but you are!
Rahul Shivshakar was trending as well
For all the wrong reasons
Perhaps his face or rather the look on the face, is going to become a meme in times to come.
Rahul Shivshankar is just a wannabe, the haranguer-in-chief is Arnab Goswami, pointed out a lot of the tweeple.
Foreign experts called on Indian shows tend to expect a modicum of order on TV shows, not the kind of circus we often see. This one called Goswami the very thing he calls others: antinational!
With this and the Rahul Shivshankar blooper with Mr McAdams, Indian media has not been covering itself in glory in recent times.
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