Check the reply on their twitter posts for a more balanced perspective. These people hold almost no influence. Think of Prasoon Bajpai, Karan Thapar, Vinod Dua etc. thats the trajectory Sardesai, Dutt et al are on, and not on their path of becoming the next Arnab.

Of course they did name Sonia Gandhi. Do you remember the India Against corruption movement which gave rise to AAP? The movement had posed questions to MMS and Sonia Gandhi and media had championed the movement. There was no equivocation about it from any mainstream channel, neither about the multiple scams that preceded it. Media houses had done their duty in speaking truth to power especially in UPA2 days.

What I am trying to say is your opinion about Modi's hounding in media seems to be built on what gets printed in wire/print/caravan etc. Although these sources might be heavily represented in your FB timefeed their influence/readership is miniscule compared to a news channel and news papers which have extremely lenient to Modi. Just think how hard media was on UPA2. That same level of scrutiny is sorely missing.

Even among the mainstream Hindi channels I would say only IndiaTV and ZeeNews have some pro-Modi bias. The rest of them(ABP news, Aaj Tak etc.) criticize the government routinely.