Reclaiming The Freedom Of Speech And Expression In An Orwellian Dystopia Chander Uday Singh, Senior Advocate 5 May 2023 https://www.livelaw.in/articles/reclaiming-the-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-in-an-orwellian-dystopia-article-191a-228047
the optimists have now been betrayed by a strong government, a government which believes that a brute majority in Parliament is justification enough to tame and bend media to do its bidding. the present government which came to power in 2014 soon adopted the time-tested recipe for boiling a frog.
This phase was launched with first de-legitimising the media. It began with union ministers using words like ‘presstitutes’ to describe journalists. ...Simultaneously, a carrot-and-stick approach was adopted with generous government advertising to favoured outlets on one hand, and on the other, advertising cut-backs as also the threat of choking other businesses of network owners and newspaper proprietors if they failed to play ball. In a nation where almost every national television network and most newspaper chains are owned by industrialists who need government patronage, or at least the cooperation of the government, the underlying threat, whether covert or overt, could not fail to bring home the bacon.
A favoured method of taming the media is to make an example by easing out many of those who stand up for journalistic independence.
the optimists have now been betrayed by a strong government, a government which believes that a brute majority in Parliament is justification enough
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