Column: The Chase for Ratings and the coverage of Sex, Scandal, and Fake News
December 27, 2020Never mind the murder of truth, never mind the spread of hate – the appeasement of the rating gods is paramount
Category: Fake News
Column: Vultures of the Mainstream Media
December 27, 2020this appeared in the FPJ It isn’t that there is a dearth of news. We are in the throes of the first global pandemic in almost a century, and the COVID crisis shows little sign of respite. There is the clash with…
Column: Social Media & the Truth
December 20, 2020This appeared in the FPJ Earlier this week, leading advertisers in the United States of America, did the unthinkable. In the face of mounting criticism about the role of social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, in spreading fake news and…
CNBC-TV18 Column – Want to curb fake news? Tackle IT cells of political parties first
January 2, 2020This appeared on August 22nd 2019 There is a case before the Supreme Court that looks at the issue of Fake news, and the proposed solution. Representing the Government, Attorney General KK Venugopal is arguing the need to link social media accounts…
CNBC TV18 column: Deep Fakes just complicated the Fake News Problem
December 16, 2018Late last year an anonymous reddit user, @deepfakes, did something that got him banned from the platform that prides itself on free speech. He (or she) released a set of porn videos with the faces of celebrities superimposed on the face of…
CNBC TV18 Column : Subscriptions – Isn’t it time we pay for quality news?
June 27, 2018I write for CNBC TV18 about the need to look at subscriptions and why we need to look at paying for news to beat fake news. There is a story about the early days of news broadcasting on BBC radio. It was…
Newslaundry Column : Cobra Post Media for Sale – What should Regulators Do?
May 30, 2018Cobra Post Media for Sale sting brought up some interesting, and entertaining videos. I am sure anyone who began watching it, saw it through with fascination. And, while many may outrage about the lack of ethics in the media, and others may…
#CobraPostSting : #MediaonSale What should the Government Do?
May 26, 2018For most of us who have worked in the media, and then chosen to leave MSM, the sting by CobraPost was not a major surprise. What was surprising was the extent of the rot. What was considered to be professional/legal lapses by…
APB Blog : Fake News – the next frontier
September 22, 2017source : here I write for the ABP Of late, the flurry of whatsapp forwards have increased, many on current news issues. Most are so well crafted it is difficult to know they are true of not. Things get worse when main…
ABP Blog : Fake News and MSM Crying Wolf
April 14, 2017Main Stream Media, has to carry a lot of the responsibility for Fake News. As the media cries wolf, more often than not, it needs to revisit the fable to know what happened in the end. I write for ABP Once upon…