Summary:
Yes, according to Sashi Kumar, columnist and media critic. Instead of speaking the truth to power, and fighting for the freedom of speech, the media has by and large was complicit in the ruling establishment's atrocities on democracy, Mr.
Kumar noted. At a seminar on ‘The media today: Fourth Estate or fifth column’ organised by the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST), Mr.
Kumar alleged that most of the media, especially the visual media, revelled in defending the wrongdoings of the government. “The media has capitulated to power,” he remarked. But now the media was servile to power, and it sang paeans to the ruling class..