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As usual like all other mainstream media outlets, BBC Hindi's reporting about cryptocurrency started with the cons of Bitcoin and ended with uncertainty. This is the link to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKX3pDQU0w&t=581s

Can anyone tell me who is that girl? She is supposed to be some kind of consultant for Banking and Finance. My point of view is that rather than having her why didn't they bring someone from the field of cryptocurrency like Nishchal Shetty.

The topic starts at 2:02 and ends at 9:28. Do watch it and share your views about this video.
 

Which girl are you talking about ? The only 2 Indian ladies in the video were Sarika the news anchor and Shilpa Mankar a lead in a FinTech firm.
More info about her is found below

https://www.amsshardul.com/team/shilpa-mankar-ahluwalia/

As always the news still portrays bitcoin in a negative way by showing interviews with people who speak against bitcoin.
They showed how people at El Salvador are protesting against bitcoin but they didn't show how some people are happy after bitcoin was legalized there.
I think these news channels will never show unbiased news ever. Everything has pros and cons and it depends on us what to give more importance to.

If you are talking about the consultant, I am surprised that she belongs to Fintech Industry, if someone is from Fintech because she didn't talk even a bit about how bitcoin would affect the finance world and DEFI could bring a change, all she talked about was buying and selling of cryptos which everyone knows is at your own risk, when I buy a property that too is at my own risk that what If it doesn't get sold tomorrow? buying and selling things has always been at your own risk. But yes she didn't have such a bad opinion all she did was highlighted a few cons and gave a hint that it can't be banned obviously.

I still think that it would have been good if they had got someone actually from the cryptocurrency fraternity on their show rather than having that lady. Actually, she could have talked about a lot of things like how NFT is entering into the mainstream entertainment business and the same about Defi too. All they highlighted is how bad cryptocurrency and in general Bitcoin is and how the Indian government is still clueless and what to do next?

Actually, the prime reason why they aren't able to call anyone from the crypto fraternity is the legal issues, Channels don't want to look as if they are promoting cryptocurrencies in any way. They can either look neutral or can show a negative stance just like our government which is why these people are reluctant in calling anyone from the crypto community. It's not the case with every channel, for example in this business channel CNBC Awaaz they did call a quite renowned personality from the crypto space: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=886728621948088&_rdr . I think it depends upon channel to channel that what sort of ideology they want to propogate.

BBC does not think about India in general. They basically are more global centric. Still it is great that they discussed about crypto. I am not sure what they are trying to ascertain or conclude but our Indian media outlets has suddenly started showing positive aspect of cryptocurrency. Thank for sharing.