State of the Media in India – By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
It is not difficult to speak about the state of media particularly the electronic one in India today. If Lal Krishna Adavani is true to his convictions then he must use a much powerful statement than what he used during the Emergency when he famously said: The media was asked to bend and it started crawling’.
Problem is that emergency is the favorite topic of the Sangh Parivar whose leader Bala Saheb Deoras had actually sought to dispel the feeling that they were opposed to emergency when he sought appointment with Mrs Indira Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave, the spiritual guru of Indira Gandhi, at his ashram in Pawnar, played the mediating role.
Advani who has now kept monumental silence on the state of affairs of India unlike Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, who has some guts to speak up openly and ask the people to question. Subrahmanyam Swami too is speaking but given the credibility of Swami, none bothers about him except his bhakts in the media who think him as the ‘greatest’ ‘intellectual’ of India.…
https://countercurrents.org/2019/09/state-of-the-media-in-india
SEE ALSO:
- Home Ministry’s Directive to Newspaper for Opinion Piece a Form of ‘Threat’ to Media – By Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar (Sep 5, 2019, The Wire)
https://thewire.in/government/home-ministry-gopal-sankaranarayanan-article-370 - To Whom Is the Press Responsible? – Editorial (Sep 7, 2019, EPW)
https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/36/editorials/whom-press-responsible.html - Attempt to muzzle press, criticism – Editorial (Sep 5, 2019, Deccan Herald)
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/first-edit/attempt-to-muzzle-press-criticism-759161.html - Justice Tahilramani: An arbitrary transfer, a graceful resignation – By Anna Mathew, R. Vaigai and S. Devika (Sep 9, 2019, The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/justice-tahilramani-an-arbitrary-transfer-a-graceful-resignation/article29368826.ece
