Hindustan Times
Among all those who represent the BJP on television, there is nobody who is more articulate than Arun Jaitley. It helps that he is a politician of the television era who has found a new constituency in the viewers of the news channels. His critics say that he needs to fight a Lok Sabha election. But Jaitley’s supporters know that a TV news constituency is pan-Indian and, therefore, much larger than any parliamentary constituency. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged Arun Jaitley, BJP, Kapil Sibal, Karan Thapar, Lok Sabha election, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sitaram Yechuri
How much good do party spokesmen do when they appear on television? A spokesman’s job is not just to present his party’s point of view but to do it in a manner that sounds reasonable and manages to convince neutral or undecided voters. Read more
(23 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged Abhishek Singhvi, BJP, Jayanthi, Jayanthi Natarajan, Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha elections, party, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, television
Have you been watching the election programmes on television? If you have, then you will have noticed a curious phenomenon: the relative absence of Hindutva/right wing voices.
Programme after programme, it is still Swapan Dasgupta and Chandan Mitra who appear on TV to give us a BJP perspective. Sometimes, we get Ashok Malik. And occasionally, there is Praful Goradia, though I am not quite sure that he really understands where the BJP stands. And that’s pretty much the lot. Read more
(8 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Filed under Media · Tagged Ashok Malik, BJP, Congress, elections, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Ravi Shankar Prasad, TV, Varun Ganghi, viewpoint
