by the website on 15 February said, âWe respect the sanctity of the legal process and do not intend to indulge in a media trial. That said, we wish to confirm that the selective allegations being made against us in a section of the media are misleading, unfounded and without basis in fact or law. We will respond to the relevant allegations in the appropriate forum.â
Shahid Tantray, a multimedia reporter at The Caravan
spoke to Purkayastha the day after the raid. He talked about NewsClick
, its association with the Left and its core focus, the media, the Emergency and the raids. âWe are transparent in what we have done; everything has been done according to the law,â he told Tantray.
Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing.
In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy.
That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the
Washington Post columnist. “Why have we not been able to do a single damning expose in Indian publications in the last five years?” she said. “…This is the time to take a stand and take an aggressive stand. Journalism is not even in danger, they have managed to intimidate us into silence, that process has happened.”