The Election Fix, Episode 2: What does the Indian media get wrong?
Every week, we bring you the most important analyses to keep you ahead this election season.
There are many things that are taken as a given in the coverage we get of Indian elections. We hear percentage figures about certain communities, cliches like ‘Muslims vote in a block’, or various opinion polls that seem to offer very different predictions for what is likely to happen.
Today, on a video edition of The Election Fix, we speak to data journalist Rukmini S to get a cheatsheet of all the cliches about Indian polls, and whether we should believe them or take with a grain (or a heap) of salt. Rukmini writes the How India Votes series on Scroll.in, where she also breaks down many of these questions like whether the BJP has a votebank and how the news media helps the saffron party.
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