How honest are the Indian media?
You’ve probably heard the jokes about Indian police and how they always arrive late and make fools of themselves, just like in Bollywood movies. Same goes for the judicial system.
Take for example, the most recent case of Ruchika Girhotra. Google news counts more than 1000 articles on this topic. Obviously, every news outlet wants to show how concerned they are and how broken the politicians and the justice system is.
Quite curiously, no one turns this around and asks what was the media doing between 1990 and 2009, before it became a big story? It became a big story, only because the guy was let off with a 6 month sentence. But in this ad driven world, how do we tell between honest media outlets and the ones which are just chasing the clicks?