A day after the Income Tax Department raided the premises of media conglomerate Dainik Bhaskar in addition to Uttar Pradesh-based TV channel Bharat Samachar, the Editors Guild of India on Friday slammed authorities businesses as “a coercive tool for free repression”. expressed concern over its use. and unbiased journalism.
“This is even more disturbing given recent media reports on widespread surveillance of journalists and civil society activists using Pegasus software,” it mentioned in a press release.
Dainik Bhaskar had printed a number of crucial stories of the federal government’s dealing with of the pandemic. The Editors Guild acknowledged that it “brought to the fore the gross mismanagement by government officials and the enormous loss of human life”.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
