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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by saq7 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:12PM (#22131388)
One example is looking at the coverage The Hindu gave the BJP, RSS, and Modi before he came power and after. Before they were critical of BJP when it warranted, but since they came into power the coverage has been fawning.

This sort of comparision can be made across the spectrum of the news media. They are smarter than outright jailing journalists.

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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by amriksohata on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:20PM (#22140971)
That's hardly muzzling, is there evidence of threats? Even Blair and the sun struck a deal in his time
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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by intended on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:27PM (#22142628)
And that was despicable. Here the entire media spectrum has hardly complained about the fact that the sitting PM, a man FAMOUS for lambasting his predecessor as a mute, has never had a single non-staged media appearance.

IIRC the ONE time Modi did have a question session without being in control, it was a disaster.

And of this fact, there is not the slightest self awareness or questioning from the reporters or heads of news channels.

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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by amriksohata on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:11PM (#22143254)
Again how is that muzzling the media? Not appearing for interviews is very different to gagging the media from saying things like in China.
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