Big Media as a public watchdog: No bark, no bite https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/10/28/indian-media-as-a-public-watchdog-no-bark-no-bite By Kalpana Sharma 28 Oct, 2021
Very few accept this as their fundamental role, choosing instead to act as cheerleader for the government of the day.
Should the mainstream media have added to the hype on that day without questioning why it was necessary given that in terms of the percentage of our population that is fully vaccinated it is only around 30 percent? Was it not obvious that the celebrations were planned to make people forget the ugly reality of the gross mismanagement of the second wave of the pandemic, illustrated by those haunting images of the half buried bodies on the banks of the Ganga?