GoM’s roadmap on good news: color coding journalists to neutralize negatives

From a strategy to “neutralize those” who set “false statements” against the government in “right-wing parties” from other countries to “seek common land”; From a range of suggestions in an alleged report by a group of ministers on how to reform them – from alleged “color coding” of journalists based on how close they are to the government to a “mix of truth and untruth” in the news.

Are among Official communication. This 97-page document, first reported by Caravan, shows that most of the nine ministers, who were part of GoM, flagged the government’s “negative” coverage on online and international news platforms, and that of supporting journalists For “our line”. Ministers included: Union I and B Minister Prakash Javadekar; Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad; External Affairs Minister S

. Jaishankar; Textiles Minister Smriti Irani; Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi; Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Sports and Youth Affairs; MoS (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation, and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri; MoS Finance Anurag Thakur; And MoS Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babylon Supriyo.

 The Indian Express reached out to Prasad, Irani, Javadekar and Thakur, but they were not available for comment. When contacted, Puri said: “I was a member of that committee. I do not remember having to approve any report let alone to receive it. 

When contacted Naqvi said that he was unaware of the report. The alleged report states that GoM held six meetings in 2020 on 14, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 9 July. On 26 June, members held meetings with “prominent personalities” at Rijiju’s residence; A video conference with “prominent media persons” on 23 and 24 June; And a video conference with “representatives of industry boards” on 30 June.

 The period coincided with the beginning of the reluctance of an epidemic lockdown and in the wake of the Galven incident on 15 June when India lost 20 soldiers along with Chinese troops. Beijing admitted last month that it had lost four of its personnel, including a battalion commander, and a fifth officer was injured in the conflict. Significantly, the report said that it was decided to reduce FDI in