Analysis of NBT on Raj Thakerey's issue:

Analysis of  NBT (Navbharat Times) of the dates 21^st to 22^th August, 2012 :

The ‘Navbharat Time is the sister paper of The Times of India. Navbharat Times is basically a newspaper that has mainly gained grounds in the Northern states of India.

The aim of this analysis is to find out how the functioning of the newspaper takes place and also the qualitative and the quantitative analysis of NBT. This is an analysis of a news published continuously for five consecutive days.  The news is about Mr. Raj Thakerey and his rally against the attack on 11^th August, 2012 at CST.

The analysis is on the following components:

1.Qualitative Analysis: 

2. Quantitative Analysis:

   

21^st August 2012:

      On the 21^st of Aug, the news published against the permission denied for Raj Thakerey’s rally was placed on the right hand side of NBT as the 2^nd lead story.

This was a story which is 10.5 long and consists of 4 columns on the right end

The news is above fold which shows that the news is of great importance.

This news says, even if permission is denied the rally would still take place as said by Mr, Raj. Also the ethical issue that comes into picture is, influencing the north Indians by such news i.e talking in terms of what Mr.Raj does! NBT being the sister newspaper of The Times Of  India is in great favor of the North and it’s issues are all the more related in favour of the North Indians whereas that is not the case with Times Of India. The news of Mr.Raj’s rally on 21^st said that this rally is for asking the resignation of Home Minister R.R.Patil and a police commissioner Aroop Patnakar. The quantity of the news here is not much and gives only the required information that a reader might search for in a newspaper. The source of the news is NBT and the byline given is: By a Special Correspondent. The layout of the news is very subtle and describes the entire scenario with the help of the images. The picture used to support the news is very apt and marks great significance. The image used on 21^st is of Mr.Raj and there is a quote given by him supporting the photograph. The news that was published also stated that there were 35 thousand members of MNS who were a part of the rally. Now this shows that Mr. Raj wants to show his power and his rule over Maharashtra.

22 ^nd August:

The news published on the next day that is on 22^nd August 2012 was a 7 column news stretching from the left to the extreme right. The news talks about how Mr. Raj says that he belongs to only Maharahstra and Maharashtra is his concern, not Hindutva.

The news article on this date tells us what Raj said at the rally at Azad Maidan. The news is published above the fold. His speech lasted for nearly 15 minutes where he spoke about Dalit leaders, Muslims and people who come from  outside the state. The quantity of the news here is more as compared to the news published on other days. The size of the news was 22cm long and was of 5 columns. The byline given is of a Senior correspondent of NBT. The quality of the news  goes on deteriorating as the news gets older.

                In these news of two days, the news differs from just being a simple news to a violent news. One the first day it is normal but on the second day it talks about Dalits, Muslims and people comming from outside the state. This again comes in ethics as to such violent news should be published or no. The layout is promotional here (there are borders for the news that defines that it is an important issue to be read, also the news is supported with an image of thousands of people who had come for the rally waving MNS flags at Azad Maidan. This makes the news catchy and people get attracted towards it. When people look at the image of the crowd they get a feeling that the news is something really serious and these are the tactics to attract readers. This is again unethical and biased on the part of the news agency to draw readers towards them. Also the news published on 22^nd comprise of quotes by leaders of different parties like there are quotes from R.R.Patil- the Home Minister of Maharashtra, Aroop Patnayak- The Commissioner of Mumbai,  Ramdas Aathavle - RPI leader and Abu Azmi who is the state president of Maharashtra Samajwadi Party. All of these leaders warned Mr.Raj for not getting into topics which would hurt any community.