 In this panel people who've had the experience of working both in the field as well as in the studios people who have been through the rough and tumble of journalism Seen it all up close covered looks about elections So in a sense the panel that you see today before yourself is somebody who has been through the thick and thing of journalism and also covering politics and business Well the topic that has come to me is very interesting our TV studio and TV debate becoming echo chambers And I for one have had a very strong opinion on this And that is what I would want to ask my panel today on and at the outset my first question would be that Does the dual experience of going to the field? Give a very different kind of edge when you're in the studio and Stops the studio from becoming an echo chamber Yeah, I mean if you want to say that if you're going to the studio, you're going out of the studio and you're looking at the world outside reporting Then if you come to the studio or when I was in Times of India 12 years ago So we were told that our editors of Times of India These parties don't go, they meet in the logo and take feedback from the logo. It has a different flavor in their reporting I am the CEO of Tilip Tiwari, the CEO of ZMPCG and the editor-in-chief Before that, I would like to take this opinion Tarun, first of all I would like to say to those anchors that this is not my personal comment and I have no right to share my knowledge with anyone Because I am very less in face value, I am a reporter, you are all anchors And this personal comment is not on any anchor but Tarun has asked that Yes, if you live in the field then the experience of first-hand reporting If you become an anchor like Ismita, Saeed or my colleagues who work in different channels So if you are in the field, then the experience of that comes to your mind in the studio I sometimes, like Tarun, I host my shows like this But I would like to say with respect that if you don't look inside out You sit inside the studio and understand the whole world that I have gained all the knowledge That is not good, because being outside, like Tarun said, some editors or some people connected to journalism in the political field They live in the middle of people and experience, then that is what gets in their reporting We sit inside the office, in our chambers, in our newsroom If we read the other person's knowledge or if we read the other person's written knowledge If we say that this is the perfect knowledge, then I don't believe it at all Because you meet with the person who is your TG, who is your target audience For whom you make news, for whom you want to talk And the subject, when Tarun will talk to our colleagues, I will do my tip But I think that when you sit in the studio as an anchor and you are connected to the field Then your maturity, your self-confidence and you should not go as an anchor to shout It comes from there, don't just shout, like my daughter is 15 years old, both are twins So I asked her what do you think about Ankers? She said it looks like a fish market, where every person is shouting and nobody listens Or give her the name of the vegetable vendor So if this language of Ankers is changed, I am not talking about any anchor I am not talking about any particular channel, because I am also among you And I think that we have spoiled our image ourselves Either we are in the judge's land or in the land of the constable or the court of the police Many times I feel that we call those who we call to insult them, give them airtime Or many times I have seen Ankers in the channel that he listens to dirty language, that host And he sits in the other channel, you have banned him in your channel But he welcomes other channels So we do not have the respect that if one of your anchor in your community has used those dirty words And then the other day that anchor sees you in another television channel I think it is disgusting Now I would like to go to Smita Sharma Smita, you have seen the whole universe in the sense of channel digital You have seen the emergence of TV in India When satellite television came to India mainly after 2002 Smita Sharma has seen the whole transition So I want your opinion on this issue Hi, good evening everyone It is a great pleasure to be on this panel today I will tell you honestly when this topic was emailed And I saw it that TV studios have become an eco-chamber I was thinking that let it be an eco-chamber, they have become a torture chamber And I remember that in the first two years of my reporting career I used to cover BJP, I used to do weather reporting, I used to cover CBI Many times I was told by the editors that you should start anchoring And at that time it was not even 24 hours beast television But I had made a personal decision I said that I do not want to be anchored in the studio until I want to ground But having seen this industry very closely Which is very linked to the evolution of this industry To also the problematic and faulty revenue models Problems are on two ends One, I think as an individual I have a problem with anchors When you are sitting in the studio You do not want to earn that studio space You do not respect that enough to be working towards it And second, the problem of editors The grooming of editors, I was sitting in an interview with IAMC Somehow most of the students who were coming in for the Viva Were dropouts of Punjab Technical University And a lot of them, even I ask them why they want to be journalists So I answered them because we have to come on camera Because I want to be an anchor We asked one of the students a question Something was going on, we were trying to grill So there is a pause in the room And there were three of us Including the person who was head of department When I was a student in IAMC And this person looks at me and says Anchors do not need facts That is why I am not paying much attention We thought that the earth will break We will go inside I was looking at my HOD But then we realized that maybe the problem lies with us Because that is the image that you have percolated today That as an anchor The premium of that anchor is more today Which is able to break the table and discuss Because it is an easy way You do not have the knowledge of that subject Either you ask a three kilometer long question Where a person keeps wondering what the question is Or instead of asking that question The panelists in front of you You tell them and tell them This is the easiest way So the problem of all this is That TV by itself has gone down The path of chief journalism Which is the journalism of studios There are very few channels Who are ready to invest in their reporters They are ready to spend money in field coverage The talk journalism has become chief journalism So I think there are a whole lot of problems We can go on and on about it A set of good points that Smita Sharma shared with us I would like to go to Saeed Ansari Saeed, you have been developing a news ecosystem in India for many years You have also seen that time When the model anchors used to come For male or female news reading You have also seen that When they came from the field With a field experience and then the anchors How this universe has changed You have seen it for so many years Tarun, I will definitely answer your question But before that my two friends I would like to answer the question of Dilip and Smita We are talking about Shor Sharabe in the newsroom Or we are talking about Anchor versus Reporter But I was very surprised and surprised Dilip is an anchor and Smita is also an anchor And he is so angry with anchors I am not ashamed at all There is no problem with people's criticism That newsroom or news studios Especially those discussion shows Which have become eco chambers Where Shor Sharabe is becoming a table-toed anchor You will see in the evening All the awards given here I am guessing All those table-toed anchors will be given All the awards given here All those discussion shows will be given You will have to decide this Second question Dilip is very respectful What is the anchor that you cannot see in the field today? And what is the definition of that anchor? An anchor is sitting in the studio You tell me You are both senior journalists Both are anchoring Both are at the editor level Dilip is running 3-5 channels You have established Z in Madhya Pradesh Smita has covered International Affairs You are still an editor You are doing a better job as an independent journalist Were you only anchored? Were you a reporter? All the anchors you are asking Were you only anchored? Were you only anchored? You gave an example in the IMC of the child Did you select that child? Maybe not As far as the question of the eco-chamber is You have seen it from your childhood What is wrong with you? If you are drinking alcohol there In every channel More than an hour or two You don't drink alcohol I don't want to take the name of any channel Where there are 4-5-6 guests The way we are sitting You can talk to us I didn't like a lot of things I wanted to stop I didn't like a lot of things I wanted to stop I didn't stop But if we decide a format If Tarun allows us If you don't want to stop If you don't like it You can do counter-cursions I don't do it Maybe now I want to say I want to stop I want to say something else Can these people not stop me? It will be a format Any channel Does not discuss more than an hour or two Are you answering this question That all the editors Of all the TV channels Who have never been in the field Don't they have brains? Don't they have the power to think? Can they not decide What is it? Tell me Do you think the editors Are going out today? Tell me I don't believe in an anchor Who has never been in the field Tell me the name What are the anchors in the industry You take the name Why are you scared? Tell me This anchor has never been in the field And I don't believe in this anchor You tell me Did anyone else ask a third question And answer this question After two hours The reward will be here All the anchors will get The best anchor The best reporter The best anchor The best reporter The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor The best anchor I am not saying, do you believe that 22 hours is not a sensible decision? The sense of news is not to those anchors or editors because they didn't go to the field. So, stop watching the news. Go straight to the channel. Or you are both CEOs and editors. If you are at this position, then why don't you set up guidelines? Why don't you do it, Adilip? Why haven't you shown any advertisement in your life? In which you have written a qualification? In which you have written an experience? This is the qualification of the anchors. This is the qualification of the reporter. Why have you anchored yourself today? I am asking both of you. Why are you sitting in the studio? Why did you let them drink in the show? Why didn't you let them go out of the studio? Why didn't you let them go out of the studio? Thank you. As we have seen, Saeed... First of all, both of our colleagues should speak. Because Saeed has given a lot of spices to speak. But the rest of the two will be better. Archana, you have your opinions on this. I think that it is the easiest to hit the anchors when it comes to the newsroom or the viewers. It is the easiest because they are faced. Both of you are anchors and have a big name. You have seen it a lot. But in today's times, I don't think that any anchor is in the field. I don't think that any anchor is in the field. And if anchors who live in the studio know all the angles of everything, because the reporter will be the beater. He will know about his beater and he will talk about it. But the anchor always speaks from an overall perspective. As far as the table is concerned, whether it is about shouting or showing with force, I think there are very few and very few people. Many times, your guests agree with Saeed, that you have to be strong in front of them. You have to be strong in front of them. You have to be strong in front of them. And maybe what Smita Neha or Dilip has said, there are a few people who have talked about them. The school of journalism that I belong to, is of Rajat Sharma. I have never heard of any show of India TV that is very loud, very loud. It doesn't happen because the style of India TV has adopted it. But for the rest of the anchors, the audience looks at them, likes them, and the question is, sometimes we get angry. How is this question? It is the question of the audience. It is the anger of the audience. It shouldn't be unnecessary, but for that, everyone should be united. Everyone is shouting, the anchors don't know anything. We are degrading ourselves. I felt very strange sitting here, that the anchors themselves think, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me. Can someone debate in this without knowing the issue? You tell me, you tell me. Can a show of an hour or two come out? It can be that at that time, someone else will ask a question. Someone else will ask a question in my mind. But, tell them that they are wrong and they don't know the question or they don't know the issue. Or the anchors who come to be children who you mentioned in the IMC. I also get a lot of children who think that the anchoring is glamour. They think at the beginning. But, when they come and start working, when they come to the newsroom, they get to know the truth. Because, no one faces a tough situation more than the anchors. When you are in a life, sometimes there is such news, about which the newsroom sits down as a talkbag and tells you nothing. At that time, the entire show, the anchor handles himself. I will talk about my career from the beginning. In ETV Bihar Mithi, where the jailbreak took place. That day, I worked for a year and a half. And on that day, all the senior anchors of the election had gone. I was the only one left. So, my desk in charge called me and said, you have to do this. And I am confident that you can do it. And at that time, there was no information about the light. But, I did that 6 hours show. And after doing that show, if someone says that the anchors... And that was the very beginning of my day. I learned a lot. After that, I worked in my life. That was just a debate and a discussion channel. I never saw that you had to scream. Because you have to decide who you should answer. Whose responsibility it is. You have to do that. If you have these things, then you have to decide a lot of guests. Guests are like this. They answer the questions of your Tarik. That they go back and forth. So, they have to bring the anchor around their platform. And that is why many times, they want to ask questions. They have to ask questions. But for this, they have to take all the anchors and tell them that they don't understand the anchors. They don't go to the field. I think that's why they have to understand more because they go to the field and do more work. They do more studies. Because I am also Kashmir or Madhya Pradesh are in the election now. They have gone to all the places. That's why it is absolutely wrong. And I think it is very injustice with the anchors. Okay. Right now, we would like to go to Garima Singh. Garima. What is your opinion on this issue? First of all, all the people present here say hello to everyone. Greetings to everyone. Let's start. Let's go to our topic. RTV Studio and TV Debate Becoming Eco Chambers. Why have we come to the anchors? I don't understand this. I would like to start with a short story in Hindi. Ati Sarvatra Varjeet. That is, wherever there is a problem or a problem, there will always be a problem. From here, we start our subject. We are talking about TV Debate and TV Studios which we want to prove or we want to ask whether they have become Eco Chambers. The first thing I would like to say is that there is not just an anchor, a lawful, responsible person. There is a long chain behind it. There is the hard work of producers. The first topic is decided. The editor is responsible for all the things. Producer, Rundown producer, that is, in the newsroom, there is a lot of hard work. There is a lot of planning. How do we honour our show? And I think the anchor is the smallest part of it. Until and unless, he is not responsible. Because right now, I am taking care of the channel. Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi NCR. But for the last 15 years, I have also been the only anchor in the newsroom. So, in this way, because our discussion is not just about the anchor, it has become centric. I agree that it is a great way to keep in mind that this is a matter of demand and supply. A few days ago, you all must remember a show. It was a channel, a private channel, a private channel. I don't want to quote it, because we don't want any endorsement on this show. But I don't want to call it centric. I want it to be centric. One anchor was hosting that show. And one of the guests who were there pushed another guest. Now, the people of India, who are watching the TV news channel as an audience, we saw a proper video thousands of times. Thousands of times. Among us, all of us who are sitting here, all of us who are sitting here, watching the TV news channel, we ask ourselves what we want to see. Does any of us see any DD National? Do we see the debate on DD news? Do we want that on GST, or on a business module of India, on GDP, whatever debate is going on, how many views do we get from the debate? That's why I agree. Today in the evening, or whenever they are getting awards, they are getting table-toed anchors. But it's a matter of demand and supply. I don't want to be diverted from the issue. What you want, that's what we see. Why then the TRP rating of all the programs is so great that pressure automatically creates programs like this. So, here, the first point that I would like to keep on the table is that the anchor is a very small part of this entire chain. Another thing that I want to say that what you are watching is shown there. Yes, of course. One more thing. In our media industry, I think Delhi is here, Smitha is here, Saeed is here, Archana is here, and we all have spent a long time in a long time and without it, I can say this with the real claim and with the full responsibility with the responsibility with the responsibility that basically there are very few people there are very few people who we all have come to know. So, we have to decide that how much we want to be sensible, how much we want to be authentic, how much we want to be presentable, how much we want to be reliable. We have to decide individually. Because, look, there are 130 crore speakers, no one can be like that. In the newsroom, every producer can work with a level with a capability basically with a skill or not. By the way, Anchor is also in the Jamaat and this news debate about Anchor I think it will be too much and because I am present here as a channel head as an anchor therefore I understand everything Actually, we are in the era of crisis. We have to understand electronic media. If you are looking at the change on the TV screen, then you have to see that the same change is also in the society. You see the same change around you, can you see it? You will get the same change in your society. But it is easy to say and because electronic media is now in the era of crisis. Especially if we talk about India, Argentina had a delegate with us then we are in the era of crisis. And we have to learn and understand and maybe we do not have that brain. Sometimes I talk to my colleagues who had been in the TV industry for a long time marketing sales distribution but when they talk to me they say the heat of your industry is actually so low that what can be said about it? So maybe we need such people such protagonists such people who maybe can think differently from this concept. There is something better in digital and in the same way I feel that the platform of TV is also needed. What can be better than this? We have to generate ideas we have to develop we have to understand we have to see and maybe we can take all those ideas to the level of execution I think the crisis is actually a lack of thought. The strong point was given but I was told that we have little time so I will come directly to closing comments. We will start with Dilip Tiwari and then we will take all the closing comments. First of all I said that this is not a personality but you might have heard Tarun's question that reporters when they become anchors there is a good impact in the studio. We started from there we are not involved in the subject. The question of taking the name is not good to think of your opponents or to think of your rivals is not good. So I think the name is good because we respect them with our heart and with our mind even you will do it even if you don't respect them it is a good or bad thing there is no crisis there is no problem we are responsible for all the mistakes I am saying again and again that it is not good for anyone as you said we are more knowledgeable than reporters I don't have any person in this industry whether he is a camera man or anyone he works 24 hours a day and I am a reporter and I always want to be a reporter Saeed I want to ask you from all over the world tell me which is the biggest exposure of India and whether it is from Max or any award tell me only that anchor I will go I see 4 readers I am happy their age is 55 but they are still looking for a news they meet talk to people I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care and so they don't care I really they are I don't care I I really I don't care I I don't like I don't like We don't want to hit any of the anchors, but if a person from your society is called a fraud, then what did any of the anchors comment on? Did you protest openly? Did you ever come to the stage together? One of you is called a fraud of a presidential party sitting on a debate in a TV. And then you have fun in it. We all have fun together that he is called a fraud. And the same person in the other channel can't see me. If you want to ask a name, then you may be more aware. Because you are a part of the anchor community. If one of the anchors of my community is called a fraud of a TV, then he is of any party. You can't tell us together that we will have to make a commission in this. We will have to go and say, how did you call this person a fraud? You are such a bad person. You are a fraud of a presidential party. The party that has ruled in the country for 60 years, that is the case of BJP's government. They are saying anything. That is the case. The rest of the government has learned. We are aware of the fraud that you mentioned. But we have decided that we won't run it. It is wrong that you don't run it in this way. Second, you are a small part of the anchor community. I say that the anchor community is the biggest part. Maybe you don't understand the language of mind. Anchors have everything. They ask how much their salary is. They run this channel. They are the big people. They see this. Nobody knows who is behind the curtain. You are the face. You have to decide the direction and direction. As far as the subject is concerned, the effect is that when we give the opportunity to speak, we listen to each other. This is also a debate. We are debating. But we are listening to each other. But the way the anchors come, then you will say that you take the name. The way they come, it seems as if they are going to get hungry. If they don't come, they get different flames. Different. Some will get burned, some will get hungry, some will get angry. What is this? But they are looking at the moon. Look, they are looking at the moon. And it is not that they are not able to see the moon. They are looking at the moon. I am going to give the rest. First of all, I would like to say that Saeed Ansari is our old friend. He is a very nice person, but he is an anchor. So when he came, when he said Allah, the agenda was set at six. I don't want to be a part of it, even if I get an award or not, that is my personal choice. Because I am Shor Shraab. You are right. When I anchored in IBN7 as a younger anchor, There were occasions where I could do it, there were occasions where things were beyond my circumstance, and as the lips said, none of the comments are poised at anybody personally. It is a generic remark, but I think if you want to say that the industry today is not facing a credibility crisis, then I'm sorry, we are all suffering from an ostrich syndrome. And burying our head in the sand is not going to wish away the problems that the industry faces. Because it's in each of our interests today that the people present here are connected to the news in this hall in some way or the other. And this is in the interest of all of us that today we should stop the news from becoming a business. And for that it is necessary that if there is an anchor or a reporter, I would like to point Tarun as a former anchor. Tarun, you have asked five questions from the anchor versus reporter. But TV Chambers Eco Studio, I think this is a problem. This is also reflective of the current political scenario in the country. This is reflective of the way our societies, our drawing rooms have changed today. It is easier basically that you are trying to increase your thought process, not as a news person. What is the thought process of the other person, what is the thought process of the society? This is the problem. And if we get awards for the shows on the show, congratulations, my best wishes as an audience. I am hooked to podcasts, I am hooked to podcasts of NPR, of BBC. I like to hear sensible discussions because I am an old school journalist. And I want news, I don't want drama. I am sorry, today the top editors, and I won't take their names because it is beyond my style of conduct. The editors are again and again just in the name of TRP, whether they are junior anchors or any senior anchors, they are making a certain style of show, Imran Khan's wives, Imran Khan's jin, who is being fed in their tanks, who is being fed as a shark fish. You yourself think, people are watching, TRP is coming, but if you go home and see, they will say that we are watching for news entertainment. News is not meant for entertainment, news is meant for information. My only humble request is that all of us new anchors, and it must have happened sometimes, that we have called someone's family to eat in the restaurant, as an anchor, as a reporter, everyone has sacrificed, they have worked for hours in life, sometimes anchors don't get a show by doing makeup for hours, or get a rubbish show, sometimes reporters sit on footpaths for hours, I mean on the day of elections at 4-5 in the morning, they stand in front of Rahul Gandhi's house, where the street dog is sitting, and I am sitting. So that in the 6 o'clock bulletin, we get a nod of 30 seconds of the reporter, that our 8 reporters are standing in 8 places. So I think my only humble request is if we don't want TV studios to become echo chambers, it's the responsibility from everybody and editors to ensure that news remains news. Quickly. It does not become a business. Yes. Now quickly, do you have a request that all of you keep your opinion? I have kept my opinion, I give a concluding remark, and I feel basically, be the change you want to see in the world. That's it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.