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Never before in the history of post-Independence India has anything like this every happened, said Dr Prannoy Roy of NDTV this morning, covering the announcement that the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Prasad Yadav combine was leading in the Bihar assembly election results. But Roy's never-before comment didn't have anything to do with the achievement that Kumar and Yadav had pulled off. Instead, it had much more to do with NDTV's own response to the results.
That's because, not even an hour into counting of votes from electronic voting machines, NDTV said it had prepared a projection. That's right, as early as 9 am, the channel known for straightforward, accurate election reporting called the Bihar assembly election in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The network's Hindi channel, NDTV India, even used the world "landslide" to describe the BJP's win. An hour later, it was clear that NDTV had gotten it completely wrong. more
Never before in the history of post-Independence India has anything like this every happened, said Dr Prannoy Roy of NDTV this morning, covering the announcement that the Nitish Kumar-Lalu Prasad Yadav combine was leading in the Bihar assembly election results. But Roy's never-before comment didn't have anything to do with the achievement that Kumar and Yadav had pulled off. Instead, it had much more to do with NDTV's own response to the results.
That's because, not even an hour into counting of votes from electronic voting machines, NDTV said it had prepared a projection. That's right, as early as 9 am, the channel known for straightforward, accurate election reporting called the Bihar assembly election in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The network's Hindi channel, NDTV India, even used the world "landslide" to describe the BJP's win. An hour later, it was clear that NDTV had gotten it completely wrong. more
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