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Laura Tingle's state of the nation; India Now: making (and faking) the news
The figures are mind boggling - India publishes 16,000 daily papers and boasts 600 TV channels. Around 80 per cent of its population reads at least one paper a day. But the alarming reports of violence against journalists who don't toe a line, and an aggressive use of defamation cases against reporters and news outlets, throws a question mark over the Indian media's independence.
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