Media Lies: Aaj Tak TV Spread Misinformation about Kargil

Kargil, April 20, 2021: The Aaj Tak television news channel in a report on Monday spread major misinformation about Kargil district showing a recent video clip where people rush to get fresh vegetables.

The news channel reports that with the spread of Corona cases in the country people have started “panic baying” in various places and such a news report has come from Kargil district. Showing the visuals in Kargil the report said that due to fear of lockdown people have started buying vege...

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UT Admin Formulates Advertisement Policy, forms UT-level PAC

Leh, March 16: To implement the newly formulated advertisement policy, the Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh has constituted the UT-level Panel Advisory Committee (PAC) to empanel newspapers and periodicals for the printing of advertisements of the UT Administration and District Administration of Leh and Kargil.

The PAC comprises the Secretary of Information and Public Relations as the chair, Joint Director/Deputy Director/Under Secretary (Information) as the member secretary, Direc...

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Who Is There to Ask the Questions Then?

Journalism has been one of the most integral but lesser pronounced aspects of the idea of modern democracy. In the United States for example, lawmakers even to this day, turn to The Federalist Papers during debates to understand how their institutions were designed to operate. The Federalist Papers were first published in newspapers in New York in the late 1780s. Journalism as a check on power too, ideally, has tremendous potential. Though intellectuals like Noam Chomsky are finding it h...

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