And the prime minister, Narendra Modi, joined other world leaders in asserting the irrelevance of the mainstream media. Politicians now need the media less because they have found other ways to communicate with voters. An Indian prime minister who finds conventional media expendable swept the polls after a five-year term during which he held no press conferences. Modi’s strategy honed during his first term was to simply bypass the media he does not need. Kashmir has remained shut down for five months, with many journalists losing their source of livelihood.

Source: The Telegraph December 29, 2019 18:56 UTC