Political Ownership and the Abysmal state of Journalism in India
Zainab Rauf
The contagion of fake and biased news has gripped India with all its might. Gone are days when a journalist had the freedom to pen down their thoughts and publish real news fearlessly.
As media in India grows into an economic giant, clocking double-digit growth annually, and matching the economic size of many individual industries, journalists are being obliged to bow down to their power possessors and media houses.
A real news does not even find a column in the newspapers today.
Pertinently the growth of the Indian Media industry has largely been at the behest of media power-holders rubbing shoulders with top-level politicians, industrialists, and corporate lobbyists.
This has not only allowed media power-holders to attain immense financial power and marke...