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#DPDP 2025. #india #BrokenRepublic

They fear rightly that the new #law would seriously #undermine two significant and intertwined #rights: the #right to #freedom of #speech and #expression and the right to #information.
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Backstory: A Bulldozer Election Machine Being Given the Run of Electoral Field Amidst Media Inertia
A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.
thewire.in
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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"#Savagery bloomed like a #lotus #Lynchings of #Muslims & Muslim-seeming #migrants came to be #normalised across the country, from “progressive” #Kerala & #Karnataka to #MadhyaPradesh #UttarPradesh & #Bihar"
#BrokenRepublic

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Backstory: 2025 Was a Year of Shifting Shapes and Shaping Shifts
A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.
thewire.in
December 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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#PamelaPhilipose
#BrokenRepublic
"What’s conspicuous to the #media watcher are the strategies the #Indian #state have employed to control the public narrative in #Ladakh during this tempestuous interregnum."
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Backstory: Decoding Media Repression in Ladakh
A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.
thewire.in
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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@MercedesBenz @HurunIndia #WealthReport has just informed us that today India has 8,71,700 #millionaire households, which is a staggering 90% increase #pandemic #aggregation #richest #policymaking #corporatepower.
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Backstory: The Rise and Rise of Oligarchies and the Dark Shadow They Cast on Media Freedoms - The Wire
A fortnightly column from The Wires ombudsperson.
m.thewire.in
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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" Nine Years of Taking Aim at #UmarKhalid, Media Style"
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Backstory: Nine Years of Taking Aim at Umar Khalid, Media Style - The Wire
A fortnightly column from The Wires ombudsperson.
m.thewire.in
September 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#BrokenRepublic
#Potemkin #Media
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vast network of #newschannels and #newspapers #facade of #functioningmedia lively chat shows&passionate anchors, curated frontpages & well-qualifiedanalysts fake as the props that #Grigori had set up
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Backstory | Stolen Elections Should Make for Compelling Journalism but Big Media Looked the Other Way
If you want to know why we have a Potemkin Media today, just follow what happened after that consequential news conference.
thewire.in
August 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
July 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#ObtuseInsensitivity #Tonedeafness #BrokenRepublic
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#AI171 coverage from news media @BBC and @CNN devoted much attention to it #British nationals were on board #victims
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Backstory: Could There Have Been More Substance, Less Sensation in Reporting the Crash of Flight AI171?
A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.
thewire.in
June 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM