{"id":21078,"date":"2018-10-21T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T07:48:08","slug":"ani-a-tale-of-inadvertent-errors-and-oversights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ani-a-tale-of-inadvertent-errors-and-oversights\/","title":{"rendered":"ANI – A tale of inadvertent errors and oversights"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a tragic accident<\/a>, a train mowed down\u00a0Dussehra revellers gathered close to railway tracks near Amritsar. At least 60 people were feared dead. Soon after, videos of the disaster shot by several eyewitnesses were picked up by news organisations, including\u00a0Asian News International (ANI)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Subsequently,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>also put out an eyewitness’ statement that blamed the Congress for the incident. This tweet was posted at 8:39 PM on October 19.<\/p>\n

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#WATCH<\/a> Eyewitness at #Amritsar<\/a> accident site says, “Congress had organised Dussehra celebrations here without permission. Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife was the chief guest at the celebrations and she continued to give a speech as people were struck down by the train.” pic.twitter.com\/rcsxbVxiB9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At 11:49 PM, it was pointed out<\/a> that the ‘eyewitness’ quoted by\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>was a spokesperson of BJP Punjab and former president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). At 12:36 AM,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted a ‘correction’, clarifying that the ‘eyewitness’ was BJP leader Rajesh Honey.<\/p>\n

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#Correction<\/a>: The eyewitness is BJP spokesperson Rajesh Honey who was present at the site when the DMU train ran over people watching Dussehra celebrations in #Amritsar<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/jnPLUIUTnj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s noteworthy is that after 14 hours of\u00a0ANI’s\u00a0<\/em>clarification, only 463 users retweeted it and 769 people liked it. Contrastingly, its earlier tweet drew over 5,000 likes and retweets. The damage was already done.<\/p>\n

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Moreover,\u00a0ANI’s\u00a0<\/em>correction missed another essential fact.<\/p>\n

‘Eyewitness’ himself claims to have reached the spot after 20 minutes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After\u00a0ANI’s\u00a0<\/em>eariler tweet received backlash on social media, its News Editor Smita Prakash<\/a> stood by the outlet’s reportage, saying that Rajesh Honey, even though a BJP leader, was present at the spot and this makes him an ‘eyewitness’.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Honey himself tweeted<\/a> that he reached the spot 20 minutes after the incident occurred. Therefore, he could not have been a witness to the accident.<\/p>\n

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This wasn’t an isolated instance when\u00a0ANI’s\u00a0<\/em>reportage missed essential facts.<\/p>\n

1. Another politician named as ‘eyewitness’ to the Amritsar train accident\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One more\u00a0‘eyewitness’ account taken by\u00a0ANI,\u00a0<\/em>which also was picked up by other media outlets, was by an independent politician from Punjab Mandeep Singh Manna.<\/p>\n

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Within hours of the tragedy, the incident was politicised with the ruling and opposition parties placing the blame on each other. In such a situation, tweeting statements by members of political parties as ‘eyewitness’ accounts was unfortunate.<\/p>\n

Multiple times in the past,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>has made similar slights.<\/p>\n

2. Tweeted statement of BJP MLA as ‘Bangalore resident’\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In May 2015,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>had tweeted a statement from a purported Bangalore resident praising\u00a0Prime Minister Modi’s radio program ‘Mann ki Baat’. However, after it was pointed out that the person quoted was not just a ‘resident’ but a BJP Karnataka MLA,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>deleted its earlier tweet and put out a fresh tweet<\/a> with the politician’s name.<\/p>\n

\"\"3. Quoted a BJP minority cell member as ‘Mangalore’ resident<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In April this year,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted a ‘Mangalore resident’ saying that former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has created a divide between Hindus and Muslims in the city. As it turned out, the ‘local from Mangalore’ was Fazal, a member of BJP minority cell, Mangalore.\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted a correction<\/a> and deleted the earlier tweet which missed the fact.<\/p>\n

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4. Quoted its own correspondent as an individual praising\u00a0a tea stall\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A ‘tea stall customer’ was quoted by\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>as commending the shop for enabling online payments post cash shortage after demonetisation. The customer turned out to be a correspondent with\u00a0ANI.\u00a0<\/em>The news agency later deleted the tweet without a clarification.<\/p>\n

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5. Misreported BJP workers as “bus passengers” involved in vandalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On March 23, 2017,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted a video of vandalism, claiming that\u00a0“bus passengers beat toll booth employees and cause damage in Firozabad, UP.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#WATCH<\/a> Bus passengers beat toll booth employees and cause damage in Firozabad, UP pic.twitter.com\/buGqqmbpAI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, ABP News\u00a0<\/em>reported on the same day that the people involved in the vandalism were BJP workers. According to the report<\/a>,\u00a0“\u0906\u0930\u094b\u092a \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0930\u092a\u0940\u091f \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0935\u093e\u0932\u0947 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0925\u0947 \u0914\u0930 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0928\u0947\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0936\u0935 \u0915\u094b \u0932\u0947\u0915\u0930 \u091f\u094b\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u092a\u093e\u0938 \u0915\u0947 \u0917\u093e\u0902\u0935 \u0909\u0938\u093e\u092f\u0928\u0940 \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0925\u0947. \u091f\u094b\u0932 \u092a\u0930 \u0915\u093f\u0938\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0938\u0941\u0928\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0908, \u091c\u093f\u0938\u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0926 \u0936\u0935 \u0915\u094b \u0917\u093e\u0902\u0935 \u092a\u0939\u0941\u0902\u091a\u093e \u0915\u0930 \u0915\u0941\u091b \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u0932\u093e\u0920\u0940 \u0921\u0902\u0921\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0935\u093e\u092a\u0938 \u0906\u090f \u0914\u0930 \u091f\u094b\u0932 \u092a\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u092a\u0940\u091f \u0915\u0940. (The accusation is that the ones thrashing (the toll booth) were BJP workers who were taking the dead body of a BJP leader to\u00a0Usaini. Due to some altercation at the toll, some people returned with sticks after delivering the body and started thrashing the toll. )”<\/em><\/p>\n

6. The reappearance of “Muslim women from Varanasi”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On multiple occasions in the past,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>has tweeted about “Muslim women from Varanasi”<\/em> either celebrating Hindu rituals or praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n

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A layperson scrolling through these tweets would either infer that\u00a0many women belonging to Varanasi’s Muslim community were promoting Hindu festivals and\/or PM Modi, or that a Muslim organisation was doing the same.\u00a0However,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>failed to mention that these women are members of an organisation founded by a staunch BJP supporter.<\/p>\n

In the first tweet (of the collage\u00a0above),\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>quoted a ‘member’ of Muslim Mahila Foundation (MMF) as saying that she prays that PM Modi contends from Varanasi. This tweet is from 2014. The woman in the photograph isn’t a member but the founder of MMF, Nazneen Ansari. She has reappeared in several other tweets by\u00a0ANI.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ansari is a vocal BJP supporter. In 2014, she, along with another supporter of the BJP, floated the Bharatiya Awam Party (BAP)<\/a> and declared unconditional support to Narendra Modi. BAP has also shared the stage with RSS. Last year, Nasari accepted soil from Ayodhya<\/a> as her (and her foundation’s) support toward building Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. According to a\u00a0Times of India<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>report, “an office-bearer of Muslim Rashtriya Manch, Purnendu Upadhya said the \u201csacred\u201d soil will be put at different places for public view.”\u00a0<\/em>Muslim Rashtriya Manch is affiliated to the RSS.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0ANI’s\u00a0<\/em>reportage about these “women from Varanasi” is not misinformation, it is incomplete and misleading.<\/p>\n

7. Misreported RSS-affiliated Muslim organisation as \u201cpeople in Lucknow\u201d celebrating Bakrid by cutting cake<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On August 21, 2018,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted that\u00a0\u201cpeople in Lucknow\u201d<\/em>\u00a0were cutting a cake this Bakrid instead of sacrificing goats. The media outlet also quoted a\u00a0man from the Muslim community who said,\u00a0\u201cthe custom of sacrificing an animal on Bakrid is not right.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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People in #Lucknow<\/a> are preparing to celebrate an eco-friendly #Bakrid<\/a> by cutting cakes with a goat image. A buyer at a bakery says, \u201cThe custom of sacrificing an animal on Bakrid is not right. I appeal to everyone to celebrate the festival by cutting a cake instead of an animal.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/C5EJ73dKM1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) August 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, they weren’t just “people from Lucknow” but members of RSS-affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch celebrating bakrid by cutting a cake. The man in the photograph is a member of the organisation. Alt News had earlier reported this instance here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8. Reported businessman arrested by Enforcement Directorate as “former Congress MLA”\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In 2017,\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>tweeted that Gangan Dhawan, a former Congress MLA was arrested by the ED for involvement in a Rs 5,000 crore scam. The news agency later deleted this tweet and put out a clarification<\/a> saying that Dhawan is a businessman and not a former MLA of the INC.<\/p>\n

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With an explosion of information from every corner of the country and a race among media outlets to be the first to break the news, inadvertent slights are bound to happen. Even though subsequent corrections are issued, the initial errors are always a matter of concern as incorrect information gets much wider circulation. We have seen in most cases that the corrected versions do not reach the audience who have been affected by the earlier misinformation. Such misinformation not only misleads the citizens but has the potential to add fuel to existing political biases and favour certain parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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