{"id":18127,"date":"2018-08-16T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=18127"},"modified":"2018-08-16T21:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:35:16","slug":"atal-bihari-vajpayee-death-national-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/atal-bihari-vajpayee-death-national-media\/","title":{"rendered":"How media outlets announced former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death prematurely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was admitted at AIIMS, Delhi for the past nine weeks and passed away at 5:05 PM on August 16, 2018. The 93-year-old former Prime Minister had suffered a stroke in 2009<\/a> that weakened his cognitive abilities. Subsequently, he also developed dementia.<\/p>\n

Vajpayee’s condition worsened in the last 36 hours and he was put on life support. However, before any official announcement of his demise was made, national media outlets, in an attempt to\u00a0break news<\/em>, declared the former Prime Minister dead.<\/p>\n

1. Times Now<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Times Now\u00a0<\/em>published an article titled\u00a0“Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passes away at 93”<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>at 2:39 PM\u00a0and later altered the report to\u00a0“Atal Bihari Vajpayee health LIVE updates: Confusion over Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement on Vajpayee”<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Times Now <\/em>published another article on “Vajpayee’s\u00a0health”<\/a>\u00a0at around 4 PM without providing any clarification for its earlier slight. Furthermore, the article’s strapline ironically mentioned that\u00a0“a number of media organisations misquoted Rajnath Singh while he was speaking in the context of Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Dass Tandon.” <\/em>But the media outlet missed adding that it made the error as well.<\/p>\n

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2. ABP News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Twitter handle of\u00a0ABP Majha <\/em>also\u00a0prematurely tweeted that Vajpayee had passed away and later\u00a0<\/em>deleted its tweet without any clarification or apology.<\/p>\n

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ABP News Hindi\u00a0<\/i>too took down a tweet posted at around 12:53 PM where they wrote –\u00a0“amidst reports of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death, a mortuary van reaches the premises of AIIMS.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0The Statesman<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Statesman<\/em>\u00a0reported that Vajpayee was no more<\/a>\u00a0at 2:40 PM but later changed the title of their report to\u00a0“Atal Bihari Vajpayee death rumours on social media.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The English daily, however, clarified in the article that their\u00a0earlier “<\/em>report<\/em>\u00a0had inadvertently said Vajpayee had passed away.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. Huffington Post<\/strong><\/h4>\n

HuffPost India<\/em><\/a>\u00a0carried out an article at 1:40 PM declaring the former PM dead without the official announcement finding a space in their reportage.<\/p>\n

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5. India TV\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

India TV<\/em> said on live telecast<\/a>\u00a0that Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away and claimed to have gotten the\u00a0information from\u00a0DD News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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After AIIMS press release was published,\u00a0India TV<\/em> said in the same live broadcast that the former PM passed away at 5:05 PM.<\/p>\n

7. Sudarshan News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At around 3 PM,\u00a0Sudarshan News\u00a0<\/em>broke the news of Vajpayee’s death – two hours before AIIM’s press release.<\/p>\n

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Ironically, at around 5:30 PM they published another article<\/a> declaring the death of the former PM.<\/p>\n

8. India News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

As posted by a Twitter user, India News\u00a0<\/em>too prematurely reported the demise of Atal Bihari Vajpayee at 2:40 PM.<\/p>\n

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#indianews<\/a> channel should be ashamed of spreading rumour , they should apologise for this blunder #AtalBihariBajpayee<\/a> @AltNews<\/a> @swamv39<\/a> @dhruv_rathee<\/a> @ashu3page<\/a> @sakshijoshii<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/oVJmzS2yPh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Keshaw 0506 (@Keshaw0506) August 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tripura Governor deletes tweets about Vajpayee’s death<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy tweeted at 11:23 AM that the former PM has “passed away.”<\/p>\n

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Realising his faux pas, Roy later deleted his tweet and apologised for the same. He wrote that his tweet was based on the information he received from an “all-India TV channel.”<\/p>\n

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I am sorry I tweeted something upon being told by an all-India TV channel. I had taken it to be authentic. There has so far been no official announcement. I have deleted my tweet. Sorry again<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) August 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Himachal Pradesh education minister, Suresh Bhardwaj, gave a speech where he also declared that the former PM was dead. The video of his speech was uploaded by social media users.<\/p>\n

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Posted by Rajender Verma<\/a> on Thursday, 16 August 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Circulating such news without verifying facts can sometimes lead to chaos. Hours before the demise of former CM of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha, social media was brimming with rumours<\/a> declaring her dead. The Twitter hashtag #RIPJayalalithaa<\/em> began trending, causing frenzied citizens to attack Chennai’s Apollo hospital. Any slights of posting misinformation on a public portal should always be rectified with a clarification so as keep citizens rightly informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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