During the Emergency, it was said that when the media was asked to bend, they crawled. But what we see today is much worse – a situation where the mainstream media is crawling without even being asked to bend. Primetime slots are full of news about the IPL, and updates on the lives of celebrities and political leaders, while real issues such as farmers' suicides, economic crisis etc. are taking a backseat. In this interview, NewsClick talks to senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta about the changing trends in Indian media, and the threat these trends pose to independent media in the country.
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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/