With more than 400 news channels 1, India is indubitably the world’s most over-served news market. In this huge market, there is an alarming rise in the phenomena of paid news, fake news, biased news, and unreliable news. Trying to set an agenda for the country, most news television channels in India can easily be identified as either pro-government or anti-government. Not only this, the daily schedule of most news channels consists of talk shows, comedy programs, and music events, as if they are trying to turn into General Entertainment Channels. Prioritizing sensationalism over fair journalism, such news channels in India have blurred the line between news and entertainment. The absence of regulation and lack of control over the content of news television channels is the primary reason for the content and credibility crisis of the Indian television news industry. As on date, there is no statutory regulatory mechanism for news channels and they are regulated by several self-regulatory bodies such as the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), Broadcast Editors’ Association and News Broadcasters Federation. One of the primary effects of the absence of a statutory regulatory body to regulate the content of news channels in India is that viewers are in a conundrum as to what content is reliable.
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