During the Emergency the media crawled when it was asked to bend, but now there is no need to even ask it, opined renowned journalist P. Sainath.
He was delivering the Dr. Shanthinath Desai Memorial Endowment Lecture at Kuvempu University on "Journalism in India: Where We are 200 Years On", on Friday.
Analysing the changes in journalism since the days of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who started his newspaper in Persian in April 1822, Mr. Sainath said Indian press was a child of the freedom movement. "Those days the tiny Indian media played a significant role in the freedom movement, but today's strong media is playing a narrow role. At least 90% of the media is there to defend every move of the government", he said.
