11. Umesh Upadhyay - Western media thinks it’ll decide which government should be formed in India

In this episode, Umesh Upadhyay, a former head of TV18 and author of Western Media Narratives On India: From Gandhi to Modi, claims that international coverage of India is biased and is used by western governments to further their own foreign policy goals in the country. He says foreign media’s coverage of India’s situation and circumstances during COVID was “very biased”, even to the extent of being “racist”. He also speaks about how the merging of the dual roles of anchor and editor in one person has been responsible for the downfall of television news. He says that it has resulted in all resources of the channel being focussed on primetime half-hour shows hosted by this anchor-cum-editor, and there’s no one to question them.