NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar came under a lot of criticism after spreading fake news on paddy procurement. In his program, Ravish displayed a poster shared by Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal on the 14th January episode of his program Prime Time with Ravish Kumar. He pointed to figures on the poster and accused the Modi Government of distorting facts. Referring to the poster, he alleged that the Government data of procuring 534 lakh Metric Tonnes of paddy compared to 423 lakh Metric Tonnes in the previous year, thereby increasing the procurement by 26%, was false.
The government called out Ravish for his fake news. In a letter to NDTV’s Editorial Director and President Sonia Singh, Alpana Pant Sharma, Additional Director General of the PIB said, “In a shocking display of poor journalism and sheer disregard of actual facts, Ravish Kumar of NDTV has resorted to incorrectly portraying paddy procurement by the government.”
“Kumar’s report on your channel does an unfair comparison of full year procurement of 2019-20 with ongoing procurement of 2020-21,” she said.
She further stated that the infographic mentioned in the news clipping from the twitter handle of Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been cropped, which leads to the impression that this was a “malafide” act.
On Facebook, Ravish wrote an apology.
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