A sure channel to power and political clout | Andhra Pradesh | Chandrababu Naidu | Indian Express: "It was election time in Andhra Pradesh in the summer of 2009. A friend and I left Hyderabad for a tour of coastal Andhra, and it was not long before the cab driver made out that we were journalists. “Sir, these days, it’s difficult to understand news by reading just one paper. You need to read two or more papers to know what is the truth.” That comment caused a twinge of shame but in one sentence the driver had summed up the media scene in Andhra Pradesh.
Two years hence, things have not changed for the better. If anything, they’ve got worse, with the media and big-time politicians openly and inextricably intertwined. Now, the distance between the media and political parties, not long ago considered healthy for both, has not narrowed or blurred. It has been erased completely."
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