When News Becomes Noise: The Death of Indian Journalism

 

When News Becomes Noise: The Death of Indian Journalism

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India’s national media is no longer functioning as the fourth pillar of democracy. It has become a tool carefully controlled, tightly managed, and increasingly complicit. Its credibility is collapsing, and the reason is clear: the news is no longer about truth. It’s about control.

Turn on any major Indian news channel. Read the front pages of the top national newspapers. What you’ll find is not journalism, it’s theater. The stories that matter, the ones that challenge those in power, are buried or ignored. Massive citizen-led protests, like the Vote Adhikar Yatra, a historic march for voting rights, get little to no coverage. In any real democracy, this would be front-page news. In today’s India, it barely registers.

This is not a failure of awareness. It’s a failure by design.

Large swaths of India’s media landscape are now owned or influenced by corporate entities that benefit from proximity to power. These private interests, often with deep financial and political ties to the ruling BJP, have turned newsrooms into echo chambers. Editors are under pressure. Journalists are muzzled. And dissent is rebranded as sedition.

The goal is simple: suppress stories that reflect poorly on the government, amplify narratives that reinforce its agenda, and manufacture consent through silence.

This is why when citizens raise serious allegations like vote rigging, abuse of government agencies, or constitutional violations the media response is muted, if not outright absent. This silence isn't neutral. It's strategic.

Meanwhile, airtime is flooded with distractions: polarizing debates, international conflicts, cultural posturing. Anything to shift focus from the erosion of democracy at home?

In this environment, even the judiciary isn't spared scrutiny. Some recent rulings appear alarmingly aligned with political interests, casting further doubt on whether institutional checks and balances are still functioning. But again, national media either soft-pedal the issue or avoid it entirely.

This isn’t journalism. It’s narrative management. And it’s dangerous.

A healthy democracy relies on a free press to inform the public, hold the powerful accountable, and give voice to the voiceless. When the media becomes a partner in propaganda, democracy begins to rot from within.

We are watching that happen in real time.

The burden now falls on independent journalists, digital platforms, and ordinary citizens to document the truth and push it out by any means possible. If you care about democracy, it’s no longer enough to stay informed. You have to become the media that the nation has lost.

Share this. Talk about it. Push back against the silence.

And if you disagree, prove this wrong. But if it’s right, ask yourself: how long can a democracy survive without a press that tells the truth?


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