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| 164 minutes to Musharraf, 4 minutes to Manmohan | | Indian TV channels highlight Pak President | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 3: The week that was--last week, to be precise. September 21-28 period clearly and sufficiently established the fact that Indian TV news channels gave much more coverage to the soldier-President of Pakistan, Gen. Parvez Mushrraf, than what India's 'gentleman' Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh got. A survey conducted by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) has found that Gen. Musharraf overshadowed Manmohan Singh on Indian TV news channels during the one-week period.
Gen. Musharraf, the survey said, got thrice the atention on prime time bulletins. Six New Delhi-based Hindi news channels devoted as many as 378 minutes of their prime-time bulletins to Gen. Musharraf against 114 minutes to Indian Premier. Betwen September 21 and 28 Pakistani President released his memoirs in New York and had a meeting with Manmohan Singh in Havana, mong other engagements abroad.
Of these six, NDTV India devoted 164 minutes to Gen. Musharraf against just four minutes to Manmohan Singh. The other channels surveyed were DD News, Zee News, Sahara Samay, Star News and Aaj Tak. Government-controlled Doordarshan news channels devoted 94 minutes to Manmohan Singh against 35 minutes to Gen. Musharraf.
According to the survey, Gen. Musharraf, on an average, got 10 minutes of prime time coverage a day per channel against hardly three minutes for Manmohan Singh. A press release from CMS said: "No Indian Prime Minister would have ever got such a coverage in the Pakistani news media as Musharraf often gets in India".On September 25, the day Pakistani President released his autobiography 'In The Line of Fire: A Memoir', the six channels devoted 227 minutes to him, and 102 minutes in the four days preceding this.
This included Gen. Musharraf's meeting with Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana and the Pakistani President's meeting with US President, George W. Bush, in New York, the CMS survey said. Indian Prime Minister also lost out on his birthday (September 26) to veteran actor, Dev Anand, who was born the same day. Dev Anand got 34 minutes in the prime-time bulletins of the six Hindi channels against two minutes and 30 seconds of Manmohan Singh.
While NDTV India devoted 24 minutes to Dev Anand, it ignored the Prime Minister. Doordarshan was the only saving grace for Manmohan Singh, giving him a minute and 50 seconds against 30 seconds to Dev Anand, even as Zee devoted 30 seconds to the Prime Minister against seven minutes to the actor.
CMS noted: "Interestingly, both Aaj Tak and Star News did not cover either of the two birthdays in their prime-time news bulletins". |
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