News channels, which habitually give the Modi government an easy passage on air, went after the authorities and strongly championed the public interest in a way we don’t often see. https://theprint.in/opinion/indigo-cancellations-tv-news-modi-government/2803379/
Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami. “The government must take some responsibility.”
TV news channels persistently made the allegation that the IndiGo’s ‘flight fiasco’ was ‘pre-planned’ (India Today), that the public had been held ‘hostage’, the government ‘arm-twisted’ (Times Now) and ‘blackmailed’ by the airline (News X).