The nationalist Delhi media and elections in Kashmir
May 7, 2009
How free can an election under the gun be?
There are times when nationalism supercedes journalistic objectivity. Such interesting times are often witnessed in the Delhi media’s relationship with that ‘integral’ part of India called the Kashmir valley, as we have seen before.
And this time:
If the participation of the people in the J&K assembly elections was a vote for India why is the non-participation this time being attributed to broken promises… [Naser A. Ganai]
On April 30 the turnout in the Anantnag constituency as in many other parts of the country was low, but the contrast in how the story was reported (and framed) in the national press, and in the local English press in Srinagar is significant. [Sevanti Ninan]
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