: The Independent Indian Media #WorldNEWSAll It is time the truth about our independent media is exposed. The Indian media is broadly divided into two groups: the godi media, comprising of about 90%

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The Independent Indian Media #WorldNEWSAll
It is time the truth about our independent media is exposed.
The Indian media is broadly divided into two groups: the godi media, comprising of about 90% of the entire media, which toes the government line, and the self proclaimed independent media, comprising of the rest, which professes to represent the public interest, proclaims itself independent, and flaunts the slogan of media freedom.
We need not comment on the godi media, as it is sold out, shameless, and sycophantic.
The problem is of correctly assessing and evaluating the so called independent media, whose representatives are regarded the portals thewire. in (headed by Siddhartha Varadarajan) and satyahindi. com (whose team includes Ashutosh, Shailesh and QW Naqvi), Karan Thapar, an independent journalist, Ravish Kumar, winner of the Magsaysay award who works for NDTV, Ajit Anjum, who has started his own YouTube channel, etc.
They are almost unanimous in criticising the faults in the BJP government (of which I too am a critic). But the problem is that they never go beyond that.
For instance the independent media never goes into the question whether democracy is suitable to India at all, and if not, what may be the alternative ? In fact they will never even allow such a question to be raised in their publications or shows, though they claim to be champions of freedom of the media.
Similarly, none of them raise the question (or permit it to be raised) whether the Constitution of India has exhausted itself.
Now it may be said that the media is only meant to report facts, not present political theory.
But is it not the truth that the Constitution has become hollow, and our democracy hijacked by caste and communal forces, as mentioned in the above articles (for which all parties are to blame, not just the BJP)?
Are these not facts? Should the independent media not report these bigger facts and discuss these bigger issues, and instead confine itself to misdeeds of the ruling party and other facts?
Should the independent media not allow discussion to go beyond the Constitutional framework and parliamentary democracy, as if the Indian Constitution and parliamentary democracy are holy cows?
Our independent media widely discussed the Sushant Singh Rajput affair, Covid, the Pegasus affair, sedition cases, farmers protests, Afghanistan situation, Rafale deal, Maharashtra rains, Tokyo Olympics, etc (though these are also important) but are the bigger issues mentioned above never to be discussed, even with the disclaimer that the views presented are not those of the publisher?

Walter Cronkite
Moreover, the media often offers opinions, and not just reports facts. An example of this is the opinion expressed by the American journalist, Walter Cronkite, the anchor of CBS Evening News, who in a telecast in February, 1968 expressed his view that the American war in Vietnam is mired in a stalemate, and that the American government should now negotiate with Ho Chi Minh.

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