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Snapshot of the day
June 18, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party fully dominate Big Media but not digital media. The BJP has known that its failure to exercise control over all news and views would cost it politically, which is why the government has spent the past three years devising rules and regulations to bring digital journalism to heel. His party having lost its majority in parliament, Modi evidently wants this task taken up urgently – which is why the Information and Broadcasting ministry has begun
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