Vijay Pratap
How a small group of people monopolizes public opinion
through discussions concerning armed forces on TV channels exposed by a study
conducted by Delhi based media research and training collective, Media Studies
Group. The study reveals that only 54 experts and panelists participated in
live shows discussing various issues centered on Indian Army including serious
allegations of corruption. The study is based on the survey of 24 programs
aired on 6 news channels of which 3 each of Hindi and English during 26thMarch
to 2nd April.
Findings of the survey (TPS)* reveals that in all discussions held on these
6 news channels 82% panelists were from
two major political parties of India, namely either from Congress or Bhartiya
Janata Party (BJP). In all, it was only 54 persons who were invited and
participated in 24 programs aired on the subject. The figures in
percentage of these groups are follows: Ex-Army Officers 31 % Political
Parties- 31 %, Former-Bureaucrats- 13 %, Journalists- 19 %, and others- 6%. About
women participation, it reveals that women participation was only 9 % in form
of former bureaucrat and journalists in 15 discussions in
English. Only three women politicians participated as discussant as
spokespersons of their parties, two from Congress and one from the BJP.
One single Ex Army expert
was found taking part in 6 discussions in different news
channels which amounts to 25% share of the total
programming. Total 4 representatives of the Army
participated in 75% of the programs. Similarly, one of the
spokespersons of congress occupied 21% of the total number
of politician participated in the progams. He was only seen on English
channels. Bureaucrats were seen only on English Channels, there were none was
seen on Hindi News Channels.
This study has been designed
and done by Journalist and Researcher Vijay Pratap on behalf of The Media
Studies Group, India. The group founded and led by Senior Journalist, Columnist
and former professor of journalism Anil Chamadia who is working in the field of
media research and training since last 6 years. It has
recently started two monthly media research journal, namely Jan Media (Hindi)
and Mass Media (English).
Media Studies Group’s
survey TPS (Television Programme Survey)
Highlights of Survey
This Survey is conducted from 26 March and 2nd
April during the live discussions on TV News Channels on the issue of
allegations of corruption on Indian Army. The study is targeted on
participation of panelists and experts on those discussions with the objective
to analyse the discussions held in news channels.
Study involves 24 programmes in 6 news channels with 3 each
in English and Hindi.
9 shows of Hindi news channel were included while 15
programmes of English Channels in the study subject to availability.
Total 54 experts\panelists participated in various
programmes across channels out of which 5 were women participants.
17 Former Defense Officials were seen in studios with 31%
representation of overall participation
in discussions.
Analysis of Ex Defense Personnel
One former defense officer alone participated in as many as
6 programmes thus marked his presence in 25% of programmes with 35% share among
all participants.
Three Ex Defense Officials were present if 4 programmes in
different channels on rotation. This participation alone dominates 75% of
discussion time across channels.
Three Ex Defense Officials participated in 3 programmes each
in various channels. With this
participation there were 7 Ex Defense Officials were present rotation wise in
all 24 programmes taken in study .
6 Ex Defense Officials participated in debates only in
English Channels while there were 9 such Ex Defense panelists were seen in
Hindi. Two such panelists were there in
both Hindi and English.
No women panelist was there among ex defense personnel.
Share of Political Parties in TV Discussions
Total 17 panelists
were there from political with 31% participation in various programmes.
1) All
panelists were from 5 political parties.
2) BJP
and Congress dominates the representation with 82% among all political parties.
Congress had 8 and BJP with 6 leaders participated.
3) Abhishek
Manu Singhvi of Congress was seen in 5 while Tarun Vijay was in 3 studio
discussions. All these shows were on English News Channels . Bhupendra Yadav of
BJP also participated in 2 Hindi news channels debate.
4) Out
of 17 Political representatives Janata Dal (United) through Sabir Ali was
visible in only one TV debate. He was the only representative of any regional
party.
5) D
Raja of CPI was also a lone representative from CPI out of 17 participants.
6) Tariq
Anwar of NCP participated in 2 TV debates in Hindi.
7) Congress
was represented by two women spokespersons while BJP was with one. Women spokes
persons of Congress were seen in Hindi while BJP’s only women spokesperson went
to English News Channels.
Share of former Bureaucrat.
Total of 7 former Bureaucrat participated in programmes with
13% share.
1)
All former bureaucrats were limited to 2 English
News Channels.
2)
3 Former Bureaucrats were seen in 2 programmes
each.
3)
Bureaucrats were represented by only one by
women and that too in a English News Channel.
Share of Journalists
1)
Besides journalists on regular defense beat
total 7 journalists participated in these programmes as panelists.
2)
Out of 24 CNN-IBN produced 7 discussion based
programmes.
3)
CNN-IBN put 2 its own journalists in two of the
programmes it aired.
4)
One journalist participated in a single
programme of NDTV.
5)
These 7 journalists went
on air in 4 programmes out of which one each partitipated in 3 and 2 programmes
respectively .
6)
These 3 journalists shared 37 and 42% of
representation respectively.
7)
Maximum of 5 Hindi journalists were given
platform By NDTV India.
8)
Only one among women journalists were on air.
In these programmes besides ex
defense officials, bureaucrats, politicians and journalists there were 3 others
whose participation was noticed.
1) N
Hanumanthappa, Karnataka head of All India Federation SC\ST, OBC and Minority
Welfare Associations participated in one programme in a English News Channel.
He took up the misappropriation in defense procurement in 2009.
2) Anil
Baxi – a former contractor of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) went on air on
NDTV English in two of its programmes.
3)
CSDS fellow Abhay Kumar Dubey participated in
one programme of NDTV India i.e. in Hindi.
*Television Programme Survey
Participation of Ex. Defense Personnel
Se.
|
Defence Officer
|
NDTV India
|
NDTV 24@7
|
CNN IBN
|
IBN 7
|
Zee News
|
Times Now
|
Total
|
|
1
|
Raj Kadayan
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
6
|
|||
2
|
S.Rai Chaudhuri
|
2
|
2
|
||||||
3
|
G.D.Bakshi
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|||||
4
|
Nilendra Kumar
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
|||||
5
|
V.Mahalingam
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
||||
6
|
Satveer Singh
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
7
|
S. Krishnaswamy
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
8
|
Prafull Bakshi
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
|||||
9
|
V.N.Dhar
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
10
|
P.N.Hoon
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|||||
11
|
Vishnu Bhagawat
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
12
|
R.K.Sahani
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
13
|
Shankar Prasad
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
14
|
V.G.Patankar
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
15
|
V.P.Malik
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
|||||
16
|
D.B.Shetkar
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
17
|
Tejindar Singh
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
Participation of representative of political parties
Se.
|
Politician
|
Party
|
NDTV India
|
NDTV 24@7
|
CNN IBN
|
IBN 7
|
Zee News
|
Times Now
|
Total
|
1
|
Manish Tiwari
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
||||
2
|
Abhishek Manu Singhvi
|
Congress
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
||||
3
|
Satyvrat Chaturvedi
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
||||
4
|
Shakeel Ahamd
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
5
|
Prabha Thakur
|
Congress
|
1
|
||||||
6
|
Renuka Chaudhuri
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
7
|
Manishankar Ayair
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
8
|
Santosh Bagrod
|
Congress
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
9
|
Chandan Mitra
|
BJP
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
||||
10
|
Prakash Jawdekar
|
BJP
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
||||
11
|
Tarun Vijay
|
BJP
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
||||
12
|
N.Seetharaman
|
BJP
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
13
|
Bhupendra Yadav
|
BJP
|
2
|
2
|
|||||
14
|
Vijay Goail
|
BJP
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
15
|
D Raja
|
CPI
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
16
|
Sabir Ali
|
JDU
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
17
|
Tariq Anwar
|
NCP
|
2
|
2
|
Participation of former Bureaucrat.
Se.
|
Bureaucrats
|
Post
|
NDTV India
|
NDTV 24@7
|
CNN IBN
|
IBN 7
|
Zee News
|
Times Now
|
Total
|
|||
1
|
TSR Subramanian
|
Ex. Cabinet Secretary
|
2
|
2
|
||||||||
2
|
Sudhir Kuma
|
Ex. CVC
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|||||||
3
|
N. Vitthal
|
Ex. CVC
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
4
|
G.Parthsarthi
|
Ex. Secretary, Foreign
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
5
|
Brajesh Kumar Mishra
|
Ex. National Security
Advisor
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
6
|
Kanwal Sibbal
|
Ex. Foreign Secretary
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
|||||||
7
|
Shailja Chandra
|
Ex. Chief Secretary,
Delhi
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
Participation of journalist
Se.
|
Journalist
|
Post
|
NDTV India
|
NDTV 24@7
|
CNN IBN
|
IBN 7
|
Zee News
|
Times Now
|
Total
|
1
|
Bharat Verma
|
Editor, India Defence
Review
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
||||
2
|
Maruf Raza
|
Defence Analyst
|
2
|
2
|
|||||
3
|
Ajay Shukla
|
Defence Journalist
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
4
|
|||
4
|
Nitin Gokhle
|
Defence editor, NDTV
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
5
|
Vinod Mehta
|
Editor, Outlook
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
6
|
Surya Gangadharan
|
Journalist, CNN
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
7
|
Mukesh Kaushik
|
Defence Journalist
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
8
|
Rahul Bedi
|
Journalist Defence Weekly
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
9
|
Anubha Bhosale
|
Senior Editor, CNN
|
1
|
1
|
|||||
10
|
Vinod Sharma
|
Journalist, Hindustan
Times
|
1
|
1
|
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