GoM Report on Need for Surveillance, Targeting, Neutralising of ‘Anti-Govt’ Press, But This is Our ‘Internal Matter’….
In June and July 2020, in the middle of a pandemic that was killing thousands daily, in the middle of economic collapse, and a near-war situation in Ladakh, a group of Ministers, senior Central ministers prepared a report about how to control the narrative about the government in the media.
It suggested the need for increased surveillance and targeting of writers and journalists who depart from the government’s narrative and the need for a strategy to neutralise people writing against the government.
The Editors Guild of India, which includes India’s most respected journalists is asking this. Why this report, at a time when “various press freedom and democracy indices in India, are already showing a rapid slide.”
The Editor’s Guild says the report “illustrates the government’s increasingly draconian attitude against any critique and inquiry by…
