CHAPTER 47
Solution-based Journalism
Pramod Kumar
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
The tendency rooted deeply in Indian media, both national and regional including print, TV and digital, over several decades is that only the negative is treated as news. The immediate fall-out of this mindset is that the mainstream newspapers, TV news channels and web portals are full of negative stories focusing on crime, death, scandals and so on, and there is little space for anything good happening in society. That is why, while turning the pages of newspapers, surfing TV news channels, or scrolling web portals, the immediate feeling that hits a reader on the head is that nothing good is happening in society. Negativity begets negativity. Fed up with the negativity, a ...
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