The fact-finding report said that thanks to the breakdown of communication due to the net ban, journalists effectively had to follow the government narrative, which under Biren Singh "became a narrow ethnic one playing up to the biases of the majority Meitei community." https://thewire.in/media/editors-guild-fact-finding-report-manipur-media-meitei-biren-internet
A three-member team comprising Seema Guha, Bharat Bhushan and Sanjay Kapoor were in the state from August 7 to 10. Their 24-page ‘Report of the fact-finding mission on media’s reportage of the ethnic violence in Manipur’ also notes how certain media practices led to the vilification of the security forces.
02/09/2023