Over the last few years, under the current regime, the Indian media has shown its partisan aspect. Many now call such media the corporate media because it is owned by a handful of corporations. A glaring example of this is a recent report by The Times of India. Over two days it reported in diametrically opposite ways on the Khalistan Referendum. On 11 Sep, Monday, the newspaper reported that the Referendum was held in Surrey, British Columbia. It then went on to depict the recent events in the background of the Referendum. The same newspaper reported the very next day, 12 Sep, Tuesday, that the Sikhs had snubbed the Referendum. The media quotes a local who says: ‘The referendum was an abject failure, a listless exercise.’ Many Canadian and some Indian media outlets have reported the Referendum drew the largest ever crowds. They placed the figures at 130,000 voters. These contradictions erode the trust of the readers and place a question mark on the integrity of Indian media.
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