“Irony Died More Than Thousand Deaths”; Hansal Mehta On US Election Media Coverage
National Award- winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta sarcastically trolling Rahul Kanwal, India Today anchor’s primary concern over media bias on US election coverage wrote on X, “Irony just died more than a thousand deaths”.
Rahul Kanwal’s recent post on X has sparked significant criticism, with netizens drawing parallels to media coverage of the Indian Lok Sabha elections. Comment sections have been flooded with responses, as users questioned the biases.
Read also: Thulasendrapuram: Kamala Harris’ Ancestral Village Holds Prayers For Her Victory
Irony just died more than a thousand deaths. pic.twitter.com/0nC6PIWn33
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) November 6, 2024
Rahul Kanwal had highlighted that the common viewers find it difficult to track down the exact trend to capture the real picture. “Which is why I believe strongly that journalists should try to leave their personal biases outside the newsroom and try to capture the shifting sands in an election”, he wrote.
Urging the media channels to make efforts to capture both sides of the argument, Rahul Kanwal concluded.
During the Lok Sabha elections, the exit polls results of several leading medias had gone wildly off. The exit poll had predicted more than 350 seats for BJP but the final results put the coalition’s tally at just 293 seats.
One of the user commented, “The irony is people like @rahulkanwal and his friends who got the Indian elections 100% wrong are now busy predicting the US elections. Irony is anchors like Rahul is speaking of NEUTRALITY and leaving personal biases, contrary who have sold his soul to the present regime.
Similarly, in US, the media has been influential in telling the public whom to consider. In 2016, Trump benefitted from media attention in ways others did not which allowed him to monopolize the spotlight for years and bond with his base.”
While another added, “The guy who runs prime-time loyalty tests for the ruling party now has opinions on bias? Truly, irony didn’t just die; it got a full funeral with VIP attendance”.
Read also: “Game, Set And Match”: Elon Musk Takes Trump As Winner Already?
This proves that the media coverage throughout the US election has played a crucial role in determining the winner. An AllSides analysis has found that both left and right media outlets are portraying vastly different narratives about the 2024 presidential election. They have found that the narratives on the left and right were very different as the left used words like interview, election, comments and women while the right used words like border, immigration, poll and points more.
