Sunday, June 3, 2018

Cobrapost sting: Indian media outlets and paid news

An investigation exposes Indian media giants willing to peddle propaganda as news. Plus, the US global media operation.


Caught on camera: Indian media outlets and paid news

In India this week, newspapers and television channels were conspicuously silent on a story that should have been major news.
Twenty-seven news outlets were the target of a sting operation - a reporter from Cobrapost, an investigative news site, posed as a Hindu nationalist, offering to pay media executives to publish some polarising, religious propaganda in advance of next year's general election.
The media executives seemingly accepted the offer. 

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