Reporters Without Orders Ep 155: Farmer protests and Priya Ramani case
A reportersâ podcast about what made news and what shouldnât have.
Newslaundryâs Akanksha Kumar and Anna Priyadarshini.
The conversation starts with the reporters sharing the bizarre news stories of the week, from an Indonesian woman claiming a gust of wind made her pregnant to the Indian higher education regulator UGC asking universities to encourage students to write a âcow scienceâ examination.
The discussion begins with Annaâs report on the verdict in BJP leader MJ Akbarâs defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani. Akanksha then talks about her experience covering the ongoing farmer protest at Singhu on Delhiâs border. On how the farmers plan to adjust their protest to the approaching summer and their apprehensions about the new agriculture laws, she says, âAnother fear they have is that with the entry of private players contract farming may result in some
Reporters Without Orders Ep 146: Farmer protests
A reportersâ podcast about what made news and what shouldnât have.
Newslaundryâs Basant Kumar and Anna Priyadarshini.
The conversation hits off with the bizarre news stories, from a fisherman finding the worldâs biggest blob of whale vomit worth 2.4 million pounds to a wife of a dead Patiala man receiving a âsample-collectedâ SMS on her husbandâs phone.
The discussion begins with Anna and Ayushâs
report on ex-soldiers at the farmer protests denouncing the Naxal jibes at them by Union Minister Piyush Goyal. Last week, the minister had alleged, without evidence, that the ongoing protests against the new farm laws had been infiltrated by âNaxal and Maoist elementsâ. A section of the media too had claimed the protests had been âhijacked by anti-national forcesâ and âforeign powersâ. The most apt response to the allegations was from a 75-year-old former subedar of t