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Missing in action: TV news anchors

Media's hypocrisy on India-China stand-off is because of successive govts hiding the real issue

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Aakar Patel
A friend from the media made an interesting observation: Coverage of the stand-off with China is absent.

Not in print, which retains its integrity to some extent and certainly it is more independent than television. What he meant is the absence from this fray of our brave news anchors. They are usually keen to go to war with Pakistan but they are missing in action from this skirmish against China. Why? He felt that they were told by the government to not aggravate a situation that is delicate and could be undone by excessive national emotion.

That is why there’s
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