Hindi news media has long been an undisguised ‘kar sevak’ of #Hindutva in the gau belt. With #UPElections2022 round the corner, the line between government and party, editorial and advertorial, and journalism and propaganda has all but vanished, as owners eye a windfall. (1/3)
Exhibit A: ‘Dainik Jagran’ (2/3)
Exhibit B: ‘Amar Ujala’ (3/3)
As governments buy the silence and acquiescence of media with thousands of crores of advertising, the only resistance to this shameless abuse of taxpayers’ money is coming from unattached journalists and commentators using social media. #UPElection2022
All is maya: The @YouTube channel of 4PM that showed the thin crowds at an @AmitShah rally in Uttar Pradesh, and captured the bulldozer threat of @myogiadityanath, suddenly goes missing. Padma Bhushan @sundarpichai, please to note. @editor_sanjay
“Don’t publish anything against @myogiadityanath on the front page. Don’t give space to @yadavakhilesh inside. We will take care of all your expenses”: Sanjay Sharma, the editor of the Lucknow daily ‘4PM’, explains the genesis of the death of his @YouTube channel. @Editor__Sanjay
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