Debate

Topic 2

 unfair to equate journalists with the media houses they work for because
journalists are not agenda setters. While they are obliged to work under
policies shaped by editors, editorial policies are themselves influenced as
much by economic considerations as by political views of individual
journalists or media houses.

 minister in the country’s government and a former general at that, uses

such a term to describe the whole institution of journalism is a reflection of
just how tolerant we are about abusing half of humanity: women, men who
are perceived to be feminine, and persons of non-binary genders,
sexualities, and sexual orientations.

 India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some

measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the world. But
journalists here say they are increasingly facing intimidation aimed at
stopping them from running stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and his administration

journalists are increasingly the targets of online smear campaigns by the

most radical nationalists, who vilify them and even threaten physical
reprisals.”

“hate speech targeting journalists is shared and amplified on social

networks, often by troll armies.”

 “Government ministers have coined this word, presstitute, to describe

journalists who are unfriendly to them or who don’t do their bidding,” 
A "culture of impunity" among Indian officials puts journalists at risk of
violence for exposing corruption, while a string of murders of reporters have
gone unpunished, a global press rights group said Monday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said successive local and
national governments have failed to promote freedom of the press in the
world's biggest democracy.
The CPJ, which defends the right of journalists to work freely, said
intimidation and attacks on reporters were especially rife in rural areas of
the vast country where local authorities lacked oversight.