Does media support Modi?

[Yoda-esque]

Can you name any MSM which was not pro Con party? Also any media which treated Modi impartially in last 10 years?

He has gone through hell for 10 years and come out unscathed

[Sachin=GOD]

Can you name any MSM which was not pro Con party? Also any media which treated Modi impartially in last 10 years?

Times Now was pretty impartial - now Arnab is singing praises of Modi. India TV was definitely not pro Congress. Zee News has, for the last few years, not been pro Cong.

[someone]

Expecting some more changes in the Indian media - final result will be a largely pro Modi media which would either not question much or they won't be allowed to even if they want to ask questions.

Don't agree at all. The thing about Indian media is that it is always and still focused on petty issues, like topis, categorizing India on religion or caste lines or basically misleading through veil of secularism. Even today, a lot of questions were asked on such matters. However, what will change is that now it will be more balanced. In the past, like in a debate of 6, it would only have 1 BJP representative while the rest all anti-BJP, thus a terribly biased discussion section. Now, there is some more balance with more equal representation to the debate.

[bulbul]

Times Now was pretty impartial - now Arnab is singing praises of Modi. India TV was definitely not pro Congress. Zee News has' date=' for the last few years, not been pro Cong.[/quote'] Times Now is ok..but Times of India is pro con Still it's 2-3 out of 100s of channels :winky:

[Sachin=GOD]

Times Now is ok..but Times of India is pro con Still it's 2-3 out of 100s of channels :winky:

We are talking about Major channels so 2-3 is not an insubstantial number.

[asterix]

Rajdeep Sardesai ‏@sardesairajdeep 39s On a personal front, time for a break! The marathon is over! Jeevan chalne ka naam, chalte raho subah shaam. Gnight, shubhratri! One down.

RIP...

[Number]

Sagarika Ghose ‏@sagarikaghose The #GangaAarti was beautiful, and so was Kashi Vishwanath, but hope the PM elect visits Gyanvapi mosque too! :facepalm:

[Crookbond]

Rather big u-turn by OPEN Magazine in one year:

Are you freaking kidding me?!!! Here is what "The Triumph of Will" stands for. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/

[Sachin=GOD]

Are you freaking kidding me?!!! Here is what "The Triumph of Will" stands for. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/

Have you checked out OPEN's recent articles on Modi? If not then I suggest you do check them out - ALL, with exception, are pro Modi. Earlier OPEN was definitely not pro Modi then last year Hartosh Singh Bal and Manu Joseph were fired. Since then this magazine has been singing Modi's praises.

[Raghav_12]

Sagarika Ghose ‏@sagarikaghose The #GangaAarti was beautiful, and so was Kashi Vishwanath, but hope the PM elect visits Gyanvapi mosque too! :facepalm:

That was pretty stupid from her. Though she is one of the dumbest journalist around so not very unexpected.

[bulbul]

Sagarika Ghose ‏@sagarikaghose The #GangaAarti was beautiful, and so was Kashi Vishwanath, but hope the PM elect visits Gyanvapi mosque too! :facepalm:

:cantstop:

[Crookbond]

Have you checked out OPEN's recent articles on Modi? If not then I suggest you do check them out - ALL' date=' with exception, are pro Modi. Earlier OPEN was definitely not pro Modi then last year Hartosh Singh Bal and Manu Joseph were fired. Since then this magazine has been singing Modi's praises.[/quote'] Irrespective of the articles the cover is a pretty bada** remark "Triumph of the Will"; not a coincidence quote. If you don't believe me, check these covers out

[Sachin=GOD]

Irrespective of the articles the cover is a pretty bada** remark "Triumph of the Will"; not a coincidence quote. If you don't believe me, check these covers out

Oh ok. I though you meant that the cover was there as a remark against Modi. And yeah, it is a pretty suggestive remark though not many people seemed to have notice till now.

[adi B]

Arnab has taken such a massive u-turn in favor of Modi that if you listen to him now then it would seem that if Modi were to appear in front of him' date=' Arnab would do a [i']dantwat pranam

thats arnab for u,he is an extreme.i remember how he hailed kejri as a great leader and was acting like a fanboy when he got 28 seats in delhi.after 49 days,arnab was lambasting on him and shifted to the other extreme side.he did that when akhilesh won up,all praises and talks on how rahul should learn but now he is on his hitlist :giggle: . i fear for modi in the upcoming days :cantstop:

[Sachin=GOD]

It’s been proven again mass media has power to move mountains: Sam Balsara, Madison World Sam Balsara, CMD, Madison World spoke to ET about the 'toughest campaign of his career'. Edited excerpts:

How did the BJP mandate come to Madison? We were first contacted by Prashant Kishore in Ahmedabad through our client Lodha. Subsequently we were contacted by Ajay Singh and Arun Narendranath. Then we met Piyush Goyal and Arun Jaitley. All major agencies were competing for the account. What won us the business was a lot of detail work revolving around media reach in different constituencies. Political parties like the BJP and RSS were known to be orthodox, not open to modern ideas. Was that a problem? We were confident of delivering on our product not just because of faith in our own experience, expertise and capability but we knew we had a strong product, compared to competition. Advertising works brilliantly for a good product, but kills a bad product fast. The party did a number of innovations, like the content integration with Channel V. Was BJP open to these ideas from the beginning? Yes. That was the very reason they reached out to professionals and then played a supportive role, not an interfering role. I must say the people at BJP are not the stereotypical politicians; they are smart, savvy and intelligent managers who have left corporate jobs to help the nation catch up on lost time. Reaching out to media-dark markets like UP & Bihar seemed to be a big challenge. How did you resolve that? These markets did pose a challenge and obviously got our greater share of our attention. In addition to mass media these markets got intensive below-the-line support. What were some of the biggest challenges you faced? Outdoor — in UP especially — posed huge challenges because of unfair play by the ruling party in granting permissions for putting up hoardings. The other challenge was negotiations with media, some of whom artificially inflated their rates for political campaigns! Random numbers floating around in the media for the budget of our campaign made our task more difficult. Would you call this the toughest campaign of your career? What made it tougher was frequent changes based on feedback from state units. Work timings for the team changed from 9 am to 5 pm to 12 noon to 3 am. We succeeded in releasing jackets in newspapers at 4 hours notice, and TV spots at 2 hours notice. We launched the campaign on cricket. Going forward, will you continue to work for BJP or the new government? We hope so. What I would really like is for the Government of India to appoint us as media advisors. We could make a huge difference in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. People say BJP spent close to ` . 5,000 crore for the election ad campaign. Is that true? That is the finest compliment that Madison Media has ever received. The actual spend is a minuscule fraction of that number, but I am not at liberty to reveal it. The BJP campaign has once again proven that mass media has the power to move mountains, it is not as expensive as it is thought to be and multimedia is essential for effectiveness. What our campaign achieved is that it cost-effectively raised the pitch to a crescendo which converted a communication task into what you in media call a Modi `wave' that resulted in a landslide victory for the BJP.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/its-been-proven-again-mass-media-has-power-to-move-mountains-sam-balsara-madison-world/articleshow/35317976.cms

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What our campaign achieved is that it cost-effectively raised the pitch to a crescendo which converted a communication task into what you in media call a Modi `wave' that resulted in a landslide victory for the BJP

who is right? Kejri or Sam?

[panther]

People support him that's what matters.

[Sachin=GOD]

Will Mukesh Ambani prompt Indian media to croak? — Pankaj Mishra

JUNE 2 — Bold initiatives characterise India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, who famously lives in a 27-storey building in Mumbai, a city where most people languish in slums. Last month, his company, Reliance Industries Ltd., sought to prevent circulation of a new book which claims that Reliance successfully pressured the previous Indian government to double the price of natural gas. Amazon received a cease and desist notice, as did even an individual who had merely forwarded an e-mail invitation to the book’s launch. And Thursday, Ambani moved to buy a whole swath of the Indian media: Bloomberg News reports that Reliance, which has already invested US$11 billion (RM35.4 billion) in a high-speed cellular network, will now spend US$678 million for majority stakes in two major media companies, Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. and TV18 Broadcast Ltd. The news was preceded by a series of high-level departures from these companies, which have tie-ups with, among others, CNN, CNBC, Viacom, A&E Networks and Forbes. Two of India’s most prominent anchors in English, Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose, both at CNN-IBN, are reportedly also on their way out. What’s striking is that Reliance already controlled the two companies through a uniquely Indian system of surrogate ownership. As a long investigative story in the magazine The Caravan revealed last year, it had also enforced the transformation of major news channels and websites into propaganda outlets for Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party. Here is what happened when Vivian Fernandes, a journalist employed by CNBC, was sent to Gujarat to interview Modi: A person involved with the production of the interview recalled that Fernandes asked Modi a difficult question about water conservation in Gujarat. Modi’s organisers had asked to see the questions before the interview, and demanded the water conservation question’s removal. When Fernandes sprung it on him anyway, Modi broke away from the camera and glared at a public relations executive in the room. “Why is he talking like this?” the person recalled Modi saying. “Are we not paying for this interview?” The production crew realised that the interview was part of a promotion for Modi. In February, amid reports that she was being pressured to tone down her criticism of Modi, Ghose tweeted, “There is an evil out there, an evil which is stamping out all free speech and silencing independent journalists: journalists unite!” The anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal says that his attacks on Ambani led the media to abruptly mute its coverage of him. Whatever the truth of these specific claims, the campaign by India’s corporate-owned media to promote Modi clearly worked. The tainted chief minister of Gujarat with a record of showering favours on big businessmen has emerged, within a few hectic months, as India’s messiah. Conspiracy theorists can only marvel at the fact that Gautam Adani, one of Modi’s stalwart corporate supporters, has tripled his wealth, according to Bloomberg, since September 2013, when Modi’s party anointed him as its prime ministerial candidate. Ambani gained US$800 million in a single day after exit polls earlier this month declared Modi the winner. Indeed, both Ambani and Adani graced Modi’s recent swearing-in ceremony in Delhi. Modi himself hinted at a more emboldened and enlarged crony capitalist regime when he was flown from Gujarat to the ceremony — presented by an ardent media as a coronation — on a private corporate jet emblazoned with the name of Adani. Of course, the margin of his victory makes irrelevant the fact that in the run-up to the elections Modi received more than seven times more coverage on prime-time television than his closest rival, the hapless Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party. But there is no denying that the future of media freedom in India looks even bleaker than ever after Ambani’s Silvio Berlusconi-style domination of both news and entertainment content and delivery mechanisms. At the very least, such violation of the rules of the free market should be exposed to intense public scrutiny, even criticism, of the kind the deal between Comcast and Time Warner has provoked in the US. But a near-total silence from politicians and the mainstream media greeted, as I’ve noted above, the extraordinary doubling of gas prices in India. When Reliance attempted to throttle the book about it, those columnists who had denounced Penguin for agreeing to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History” went oddly quiet. And given the “toadification” of large parts of the Indian media, to paraphrase Salman Rushdie, it may even croak out some malicious joy as more independent-minded journalists depart what does look increasingly like a toad-breeding swamp.

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/bloomberg/article/will-mukesh-ambani-prompt-indian-media-to-croak-pankaj-mishra