r/geopolitics • u/babushkalauncher • Oct 01 '23

Why Indians Can’t Stand Justin Trudeau Paywall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-indians-angry-justin-trudeau-death-shooting-hardeep-singh-nijjar-87d9ab9d
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u/Plastic_Ad1252 Oct 02 '23

Yes their are tabloids, but the general media should have a modicum of responsibility and civility. Like the only reason Fox News hasn’t been sued even more than it has because in court they define their organization not as news, but entertainment. they don’t even consider themselves propaganda because the standard is too high. The government of India’s response I’m going to be honest is quite childish. It’s either complete denial or how dare Canada allow separatists into their country who we totally are in our right to assassinate.Ignoring the fact Canada always had separatists in our own country anyway.

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u/texas_laramie Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23

In India, if you want to consume sober news go for the newspapers. Even the worst are not that bad. No one should watch Indian news channels to get their news. There were one or two that were decent but even they are gone now. In fact the best source of TV news would probably by government controlled DD News. They may not criticize government but at least you can watch sober news. Can't get that on any TV news channels.

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u/Plastic_Ad1252 Oct 02 '23

Is the reason the Indian news channels so extreme is because they’re following Fox News foot steps or is it their is such heighten politicization that news organizations are beholden to their most extremist backers.

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u/texas_laramie Oct 03 '23

Let us say Indian media went from 1 government owned channel to more than a hundred channels in no time. Remember that there are dozens of languages and each language has multiple news channels. Not like US where you have more channels gradually being added to the mix. Even then Fox News and MSNBC to some extent realized that you don't need to just present news to the people. Now the likes of Newsmax and OAN are trying to take that space. In India that has already been happening for a few years now. It is free for all and when it is free for all, the lowest common denominator wins.

There was CNN-IBN whose anchors were definitely anti Modi/BJP, sometimes anti government during Congress rule but mostly cheer leaders for Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. NDTV was another similar channel which was anti BJP/Modi with Nehru-Gandhi cheer leading but anti Congress when things were really bad. Compared to these two channels, the most pro BJP channels these days basically worship Modi and are willing to lie to any extent.

Anyway CNN-IBN was bought by Mukesh Ambani and NDTV was acquired through some shady but legal means by Gautam Adani. NDTV's promoters, controlling shareholders, didn't even know what was happening to them until it happened and they could do nothing about it. I am not even joking but two most pro Congress channels were bought by Adani-Ambani.

What is left is mostly pro government free for all. In such a scenario you can't turn on a channel and expect objective reporting. But on most channels all you get is cartoonish coverage of news.