Media stretched in bid to preserve its freedom – The Tribune India

Sanjay Kapoor

Senior journalist

Last October, Tripura reacted violently to reports of sacrilege against a Hindu shrine in neighbouring Bangladesh. Angry mobs took out some 250 rallies in the northeastern state and burnt mosques, prayer rooms, and shops of the minority community. No one died, but these incidents were used, with the help of a friendly media and the toxic world of WhatsApp, for polarising communities to benefit in the forthcoming local elections.

True to the wont of many state governments, independent reporting of these events by Tripura government, too, was perceived as part of a grand conspiracy to destabilise a democratically elected government. More dangerous, in their view, were the journalists — like the two women reporters who were detained by the police for tweeting and reporting from the scene of violence — who came to Tripura from other states. As they cannot be influenced by the same devises that the government agencies use against the local media — threat…

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