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COVID-19: The Biggest Story Of Our Time
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Chokita Paul
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COVID-19: The Biggest Story of our Time | The Media Rumble
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Welcome to the Panel Discussion hosted by Newslaundery on COVID-19: The Biggest Story Of Our Time. The session is moderated by Dhanya Rajendran, Co-founder and Editor-in-chief of The News Minute. She's joined by Barkha Dutt, Banjot Kaur, Vivek Kaul and Aditi Priya.
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Barkha Dutt is an Indian Television Journalist and owner of YouTube news channel, MoJo. She covers 24000 km of several areas from southwest and north up to Bihar during the pandemic and she saw that humanitarian crisis is threatening towards medical crisis. Vivek Kaul is Amazon Bestselling author of Bad Money—Inside the NPA Mess.
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Barkha Dutt asserts that many villagers are not aware of the virus and from her point of view, lockdown is not that effective. She believes that some television reporters have failed to report during the pandemic.
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Vivek Kaul is an Amazon bestselling author of Bad Money.
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Barkha also added that more than 50% of reporters are covering the death of SSR and they neglect the coronavirus news.
Vivek Kaul tells that he does not watch television much. Newspapers have done an excellent job in reporting and covering humanitarian or public sector news.
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The work of a reporter is to cover the entire story of the state at large, Kaul conveys.
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Kaul adds that because of the strength of Social Media, there is this entire system that starts working to making it wrong.
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However, Barkha notifies that if people get fatigued after watching their story, there is something wrong in the process of storytelling itself.
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Has the media coverage of COVID-19 pandemic impressed you?
Yes (0% | 0 votes)
 
Not at all (0% | 0 votes)
 
They have to improve a lot. (100% | 1 vote)
 
Total Votes: 1
Vivek Kaul mentions Bloomberg as an example of them covering a story on how Toyota Kirloskar Motors does not want to expand and within a few hours, another chairman came up to deny the story.
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Barkha Dutt notes that more economic activities are needed in the country.
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Aditi Priya, Research Associate at Korea University's LEAD,
states that when we look at these tragedies and the havoc caused by the pandemic we have to look at it in two ways and she emphasizes the disaster caused by it which is covered by the media partially.
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Aditi also stresses that we should be focusing more on the problem of migration, migrant workers, and the food access to those people. She traces back to last year wherein 200 children died of hunger and how it was utterly neglected.
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Do you think Indian Media covered rural parts of the country amidst pandemic?
Yes (0% | 0 votes)
 
No (100% | 1 vote)
 
Total Votes: 1
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Vivek further says that UP has 78,000 doctors and Kerela has 1,20,000 doctors. To solve any social turmoil, we need more to unlearn and progress.
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Aditi also adds that when the pandemic hit India, the government resorted to increase the entitlements for PDS and they sounded as if they are increasing NREGA payment but that was actually not the case. They did send cash entitlements to the account of senior women and all these people but they lied a lot about public health.
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Banjot Kaur is an author and journalist. She has written a famous book, Down To Earth.
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She states that health journalists hardly get any space and this happened even before pandemics especially on TV media.
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Kaur also opines that vaccine is not going to be a silver bullet for us. The horror will remain around us for some time.
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That is a wrap on today's discussion. Thank you for joining us.
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