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Jaysit
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ryder1650
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| Horrible. Who is left to check the government? |
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jasepl
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I don't know (or care to know, really) what criteria these surveys use. And whilst I don't think they're completely rubbish, that low a ranking just isn't true.
Yes, there are a lot of curbs to press freedom in our country. Partly a result of the establishment, partly stemming from the public's general mentality. But also, in equal measure, created by the publications themselves, by churning out an unimaginable amount of hogwash.
| ryder1650 wrote: | | Horrible. Who is left to check the government? |
Not like they've been doing a stellar job of it all this while. Not whilst sensationalism, melodrama and Lolo-Bebo-Salman-Amitabh always take precedence over everything else.
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This ranking is a farce.
I don't reckon we're that low!
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Jaysit
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| Spiderguy252 wrote: | This ranking is a farce.
I don't reckon we're that low! |
Disbelief always precedes that "aha" moment of realization.
In which other large democracy do you find journalists murdered or gagged for doing their job? |
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The_Goat
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| Jaysit wrote: |
Disbelief always precedes that "aha" moment of realization.
In which other large democracy do you find journalists murdered or gagged for doing their job? |
Quite right. Not to mention the charges of sedition put against journalists who put forward the views of groups and individuals who have issues with the government.
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Jeh
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I read a couple of the above posts with some surprise. Those who do not move do not notice their chains, as old Rosa Luxembourg would say.
It's possible to be fairly safe and live unmolested in India if you obey the rules and keep your head down. But try undertaking serious investigative journalism into politics/business/religion or organising a protest in any part of the country and see how long you last.
This is partly why I get so exasperated with the constant tom-tomming about how we're the world's largest democracy or the most secular country or have the most newspapers or whatever glib factoid Shashi Tharoor is masturbating to this morning  |
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iah87
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While India may not be 140th in the list, but it certainly highlights the fact that press is not free in India as India portrays it to be. When you can get arrested for just "liking" the Mumbai closure during Bal T's funeral or threatened to get arrested for insulting various political leaders, you are not free any more.
Also I wish we will stop saying India is the world largest democracy any more. It is an amalgam of democracy, autocracy and anarchy (every state, every leader, every party, every caste, every religion have their own rules). |
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