How the media ushered in Modi 2.0

June 14, 2019 14:05

'Whilst any number of 'ex post facto' rationalisations may be adduced to explain the Bharatiya Janata Party's logic-defying triumph, it is impossible to ignore the elephant in the room: a large and influential part of the news media which blithely abdicated its role as the eyes and ears of the people -- and turned into an undisguised, unthinking and unquestioning mouthpiece of the reigning ideology.'

'It is nobody's case that the BJP won the 2019 election because of the media. India is larger, its democracy more layered, and the media mosaic vastly heterogeneous for such a glib conclusion. But a closer examination of the last five years will reveal the insidious role some in the media played in conditioning minds, building myths, deflecting attention, normalising the abnormal, and poisoning the pool,' writes Krishna Prasad in The Hindu, here.

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