{"id":1023651,"date":"2026-07-25T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023651"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:43:30","slug":"lapdog-media-tv-reporters-face-abuse-assaults-over-pro-government-coverage-of-cjp-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/lapdog-media-tv-reporters-face-abuse-assaults-over-pro-government-coverage-of-cjp-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lapdog media&#8217;: TV reporters face abuse, assaults over pro-government coverage of CJP protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Indian television reporter Dev Kotak went to cover a massive youth protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government this week, he planned to deliver a live broadcast, mill around and leave. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, amid chants of &#8220;godi (lapdog) media&#8221;, he was beaten by dozens of protesters, because his channel is seen as pro-government. Mobile phone cameras captured the assault and the clip later went viral on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Indian television reporter Dev Kotak went to cover a massive youth protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government this week, he planned to deliver a live broadcast, mill around and leave. Instead, amid chants of &#8220;godi (lapdog) media&#8221;, he was beaten by dozens of protesters, because his channel is seen as pro-government. Mobile phone cameras captured the assault and the clip later went viral on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023689,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023651\/revisions\/1023689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}