Legacy Media Face Hard Days

Garbed in lofty pontification on the value of free and fair press, the news media in the best of democracies have fumbled and backtracked at crucial times in the name of patriotic duty, national obligation or under financial and proprietorial pressures. War time journalism was, and still is, “sensitive” to the call of patriotic duty. Turning a deaf ear and blind eye to some events, mischiefs and individual weaknesses are give-ins to disintegration of nonpartisan practices. This is rarely acknowledged but widely practised.