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Jay Amit Shah, Modi and the media silence
A telling media silence has followed a piece of investigative journalism by The Wire this week in India. The news website reported on the finances of Jay Amit Shah, the son of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man, Amit Shah.
The story tracked a sudden and exponential jump in the revenues of Jay Amit Shah's businesses after Modi came to power in 2014.
Modi loyalists called the article a hit job; others called it strong adversarial journalism. The mainstream media, however, mostly shunned the story altogether. And that was before Jay Amit Shah took The Wire to court.
Threats - of legal action or much worse - are something Indian journalists are having to contend with more and more often, a state of journalistic affairs the prime minister seems to support - at least tacitly.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/10/chill-effect-india-media-running-scared-171014073808340.html
By screaming at the top of the lung and maligning any opposition the present regime is claimed to be free of "any corruption".
This is autocratic. In Russia, the ruling power is always right, now in India too that is right.
A telling media silence has followed a piece of investigative journalism by The Wire this week in India. The news website reported on the finances of Jay Amit Shah, the son of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man, Amit Shah.
The story tracked a sudden and exponential jump in the revenues of Jay Amit Shah's businesses after Modi came to power in 2014.
Modi loyalists called the article a hit job; others called it strong adversarial journalism. The mainstream media, however, mostly shunned the story altogether. And that was before Jay Amit Shah took The Wire to court.
Threats - of legal action or much worse - are something Indian journalists are having to contend with more and more often, a state of journalistic affairs the prime minister seems to support - at least tacitly.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/10/chill-effect-india-media-running-scared-171014073808340.html
By screaming at the top of the lung and maligning any opposition the present regime is claimed to be free of "any corruption".
This is autocratic. In Russia, the ruling power is always right, now in India too that is right.
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