Is Free Press a Myth in India?

Bangalore: The recent events in the country in terms of  freedom of speech and expression, expressed online has got many perplexed as to how much can we say that won’t get us into trouble or running into mutes  is the best approach.  The clarity regarding freedom to expression is critical when a majority of today’s population use the internet every day in India and worldwide.

India only claims to have free press as there are many limitations that are tied to it. Even top Indian newspapers apparently can’t write anything about certain politicians. In another incident an instigator magazine which once held its name high for exposing Congress was supposedly raided and poached to submission.  Now it covers critical stories on rival political parties. And then there are large media houses which sell ‘immunity from exposes’ for minimum revenue guarantee, and it works as a cherry on top for many of them to get off scott free.

This only portrays that ‘freedom of press’ is just a theoretical concept in India than a set reality in the current scenario.

The digital media, an exception in this case, has 63 million users using Facebook every month.  Goggle gets double this number as users. The most leading English newspaper in India has 7 million circulation, which when compared to online media cannot be considered as the ‘mainstream media’ anymore. 

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