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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 279: Saudi moderateâs India visit, DD Newsâ skewed reports on UCC
Description: This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundryâs Basant Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit. Basant reported that state broadcaster Doordarshan uploaded videos on the YouTube channels of DD National and DD News UP, passing off BJP members as âcommon Muslim citizensâ batting for the Uniform Civil Code. He explained how the broadcaster had laid aside journalistic ethics to exhibit its skewed reporting on UCC. Shivnarayan reported on the politics around Saudi moderate Muhammad bin Abdul Karim bin Abdulaziz Al-Issaâs visit to India. He delved into how national security adviser Ajit Doval was lauded at a Delhi...