This week we look at the continuing drama around #RheaChakraborty. #NavikaKumar and other news anchors discussed a new “drug angle”, while conspiracy theories flew thick and fast on #AajTak and #Republic. The whole episode is basically TV news channels’ middle-finger to viewers as anchors ignore issues like #NEET and #JEE, floods in Bihar, Coronavirus and the economy. We dissect how fact-free conspiracy theories are being peddled in the name of news to carry out a modern day witch-hunt on TV news.

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How Republic passed off a muddle of contradictions as ‘news’ about Disha Salian’s death:
https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/08/14/how-republic-passed-off-a-muddle-of-contradictions-as-news-about-disha-salians-death

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