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Media should focus on constructive agenda building processes: N. Ram

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Remarking that media can participate in virtuous and peaceful agenda-building processes to help produce democratic and progressive outcomes, eminent journalist and director of The Hindu Publishing Group (THG), N. Ram, cautioned against baneful trends of hyper-nationalism and chauvinism pervading the media. “The media does not do agenda setting. That is too tall a claim. But it can participate in virtuous, peaceful, helpful agenda-building processes to produce democratic and progressive outcomes.

N. Ram addresses the national conference on media.

Markets remain closed in Rajasthan, Congress holds protests on farm Bills

Demonstrations staged before District Collectorates

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Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra (centre) addresses the media over recent farm bills, in Jaipur on September 21, 2020.

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Congress to launch nationwide stir against agriculture legislations

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Protests against ‘anti-farmer, anti-people laws’ will continue till November 14

The way forward: Congress MPs in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi on Monday during the ongoing monsoon session .

Agriculture Bills | Attempt to ‘silence’ MPs: Left parties

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‘The agriculture legislations threaten India’s food security’

Ruckus erupts in the Rajya Sabha as the Opposition rushes to the Well of the House over farm bills on September 20, 2020.

N. Ram addresses the national conference on media.

Media should focus on constructive agenda building processes: N. Ram

Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra (centre) addresses the media over recent farm bills, in Jaipur on September 21, 2020.

Markets remain closed in Rajasthan, Congress holds protests on farm Bills

The way forward: Congress MPs in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi on Monday during the ongoing monsoon session .

Congress to launch nationwide stir against agriculture legislations

Ruckus erupts in the Rajya Sabha as the Opposition rushes to the Well of the House over farm bills on September 20, 2020.

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Media should focus on constructive agenda building processes: N. Ram

Remarking that media can participate in virtuous and peaceful agenda-building processes to help produce democratic and progressive outcomes, eminent

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