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India's Media Money Cancer

India's Media Money Cancer

Our Correspondent
Jan 23, 2010
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In a culture so blatant that some media actually prepare rate cards to present to politicians in exchange for favorable news, India appears to be waking up to the menace to democracy from a bought mainstream media.

The practice of handing envelopes to reporters has been a fixture across Asian media and especially India and China for decades. Certainly, t…

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