Pradip Phanjoubam, editor-proprietor of the Manipur English daily Imphal Free Press, on how the mainstream Indian media has covered the 100-day-old blockade in the northeastern State, in conversation with Jyoti Punwani in The Times of India:
How do you view the media’s coverage of Manipur’s situation?
Many TV channels themselves said Maharashtra or Gujarat would not have been allowed to be blockaded, even for a week. One channel told me it would cost them Rs 2 lakh to send their team for 15 minutes of coverage. They would need the same amount in advertising to pay for the coverage…’It’s a backward tribal area. These tribals are difficult to handle’ – I’ve heard this so many times, even from central government officials. We are just ‘the other’.
Read the full interview: ‘If Manipur had 12 MPs, we would be wooed’
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Pradip Phanjoubam: Manipur media in crisis
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