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Newspapers in India and their Political ideologies

Atul Kumar Mishra by Atul Kumar Mishra
13 July 2015
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Newspapers in India and their Political ideologies
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Indians are news junkies. They love reading news, they love sharing their opinions and they love to disapprove the perspectives of others. With more than 75,000 newspapers and well over a1000 satellite channels in several languages, India is one of the prominent markets in the Information realm.

Over 125 million copies of newspapers are sold each day in India. Advertising still remains the mainstay of the print media. But that is not the only way. Some newspapers are also ‘helped’ by prominent national and regional parties. And this is not all wrong.

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There exists a bias in every one of us. Newspapers in India are no exception. Almost every prominent newspaper in India is known to have a strict ideological allegiance and a steadfast commitment to a (in some cases many) political parties.

 

This article segregates the newspapers in India according to their political ideology and their allegiance to political parties.

Political View: Centrist

 

1. The Times of India:

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Often called the Numero-Uno amongst the Newspapers in India, Times of India is India’s largest selling daily. It works on composite of local editions. Times of India has been a centrist newspaper since its inception. It effectively tries to portray itself as a ‘nationalist’ newspaper but a very visible bias for The United Progressive Alliance can be seen in it. It also is a big critic of the right wing causes. The bias against BJP and other right wing parties can be gauged from the fact that it has often come up with misinformation about the Narendra Modi government. However, TOI is always ready to make up with an apology. The font size difference between the misinformation and apology is startling. “Err big-Apologize small” is a tried and tested technique in the Times of India Camp.

 

2. Indian Express:

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When the Indian Express was founded, it was a leading voice of the right wing in India. Ramnath Goenka, the founder of the Indian Express Group was a member of the RSS. Indian Express divided into two factions after the demise of Shri Goenka. We’ll discuss about the second faction later in the article. Indian Express can be called a Hitman in the print industry, it comes up with scathing critique of the government it doesn’t like. Indian Express is (in) famous for doing a series of slating articles. The current Indian Express is again largely centrist and is known to have a Pro-Congress stand.

 

3. The Tribune:

 

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It’s a famous rumor that Manmohan Singh only reads the Tribune and why not? The Tribune is a complete centrist paper with strong preference for the Congress Party

 

4. Hindustan Times:

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More of a tabloid than a newspaper, the Hindustan time is blatantly centrist and unapologetically Pro-Congress. HT had its origin in freedom movement and ever since India got free, the HT has been a leading propagandist for the Congress party.

 

5. Deccan Herald:

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Deccan Herald is a strong player in the Karnataka region and the leading competitor of The Hindu in terms of ‘intellectual’ content. Deccan Herald is a Centrist newspaper but not blatantly so. Deccan Herald is Pro-Congress but not unapologetically so. Deccan Herald is like the Hindustan Times with better content and weaker biases. A good read any given day.

 

Political View: Center-Left

 

1. The Hindu

 

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For a novice and the uninitiated, the name of this newspaper paints the image of it being a hardcore right wing newspaper but it is completely the opposite. The good thing about the Hindu is that it doesn’t shy away from admitting that it is an organized left newspaper. It is a favorite of IAS aspirants as The Hindu Editorials are counted as the best intellectual content on the internet (however far off from the realities they may be). The Hindus is as center-left as it can get and it has a strong bias for the Left parties along with the Congress. Prominent right wing parties like the BJP and the Shiv Sena are condemned frequently in different pages of it.

2. The Telegraph

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The Telegraph is a hardcore leftist newspaper that oscillates between glorifying the communist traditions to eulogizing the prominent left wing leaders. The paper is brazenly anti BJP, though it features articles from Swapan Das Gupta time and again. While being married to the leftist cause, the Telegraph is also known to clink a few pegs with the Congress party.

 

Political View: Center-Right

 

1. The New Indian Express:

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The New Indian Express is the splinter group formed after the dissociation of the original Indian Express group. This paper follows the traditions upon which The Indian Express was founded. Although the paper is known to be close to The BJP, it doesn’t shy away from taking a dig or two on the saffron party.

2. DNA

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It is a joint venture between Dainik Bhaskar and Essar Group and is a leading voice in the Mumbai area. It features well researched opinions on different matters concerning the nation. DNA has a center-right flavor is known to have a softer stand on the BJP.

 

3. The Pioneer:

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Known for its impressive papers and opinion pieces, the Pioneer is the elite club of prominent right wing voices in India. The nationalism is evident from its pieces while sincere efforts are made to avoid Jingoism. It is often called the leader of the right wing voices in India.

So we see right wing is a grossly misrepresented voice in India. While in USA and other countries, there is a fair representation of the right wing voice in the media, In India it is the Center and Center-lefts who outnumber the right wing voices by a huge margin. Of late a number of political blogs have come up which make up for the loss somehow.

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Comments 23

  1. bimsoe says:
    10 years ago

    Do you read all of these or is this based on opinions of others?

    Reply
  2. screwyouguysiamgoinghome says:
    10 years ago

    Indian express is center right? they are becoming like the hindu lately

    Reply
    • GreatFreedomStruggleOfColors says:
      10 years ago

      You are right. They look like they are doing acrobatics lately :)

    • aditya says:
      10 years ago

      its NEW Indian Express

  3. Ranjit says:
    10 years ago

    The Indian Express is more left than The Hindu..

    Reply
    • Your father says:
      10 years ago

      Soon they will all be left out. LoL

  4. Rohan Namjoshi says:
    10 years ago

    The Hindu has intellectual content and it goes with reality. Please read it carefully. and Indian express is hardcore critic. It has nothing to do about the government. They published a series of articles on 2G Scam and same they are doing with Vyapam.. so please do some more rersearch…

    Reply
  5. GreatFreedomStruggleOfColors says:
    10 years ago

    Very head-on. In India we do not have a right leaning libertarian freedom loving press. Maybe pioneer comes close and maybe the author missed Mint but then its more of an econo-finance daily than mainstream.

    Reply
  6. MED says:
    10 years ago

    Was Ramnath Goenka a member of the RSS? Google throws up links saying that he was close to the Jan Sangh, RSS and some members of the BJP. But just like it’s incorrect to say that his close friend S. Gurmurthy belongs to the BJP it’s wrong to say that Goenka was a member of the RSS.

    Also what exactly does being politically right wing, left-wing or centrist mean? It makes sense to categorize view-points as left-right-centre either when referring to economical point of view or religiosity. For example: economically, ToI is right-wing, economically. Hell, their entire marketing strategy was based casting aside all ethics of journalism since “they are in the business of selling soap”. But then ToI is a “secular” paper.

    Actually, except for pioneer, all are “secular” paper for the most with some right-wingers writing columns here and there (Swapan Dasgupta, Tavleen Singh, Rakesh Sinha, S. Gurumurthy, etc).

    Reply
    • Imbid Limbid says:
      10 years ago

      By “secular” you mean “anti-Hindu”!

    • MED says:
      10 years ago

      I mean that they aren’t secular in the real sense of the term, i.e., applying same standards to members of each religion.

    • Imbid Limbid says:
      10 years ago

      Check your dictionary, “secular” does not mean “equality of all religions”. “Secular” means “absence of religion”. Some erstwhile communist states were “secular”, where religion was banned (unsuccessfully).

    • MED says:
      10 years ago

      Who said anything about “equality OF religions”?

    • Imbid Limbid says:
      10 years ago

      “applying same standards to members of each religion”. That is not secularism. “Secularism”, as per its dictionary meaning, means “absence of religion”.

    • MED says:
      10 years ago

      First of all you said that I claimed “equality of religions”.

      Note the inequality:
      Applying same standards to members of EACH religion != Equality of religions.

      Have the courtesy to admit you made a mistake of reading the RHS into the LHS.

      Secondly, I’m applying ‘secular’ as an adjective (genuinely or sarcastically) to the ideology exported by a newspaper. Your definition of “secular = absence of religion”, while applicable to the characteristic of a State, isn’t applicable as a characteristic of a newspaper. Afterall what does it mean to say that there’s ‘absence of religion’ in a newspaper?

      Thirdly, the quotations around the term secular were used to signify that I meant in the term in the sense that it has acquired in our narrative over the past sixty years, i.e., to say it is NOT secular in any sense of the term.

      Fourthly, what you’re reducing this exchange to is meaningless word-play, whereas I suspect that you actually have another point in mind that you want to make. If that is true, please cut to the chase and make that point/ or ask those relevant questions. If your next reply doesn’t do that, I’m not responding anymore.

  7. Jeet Bhargava says:
    10 years ago

    Not agreed on DNA & New IE. Only Pioneer can be Center Right.

    Reply
  8. Mrinaal Prem Swarroop Srivasta says:
    10 years ago

    Can we have a similar post mortem of Hindi Media and Electronic Media as well?

    Reply
  9. Anurag Tripathi says:
    10 years ago

    i agree except for the indian Express.

    Reply
  10. Imbid Limbid says:
    10 years ago

    If you say “The Hindu Editorials are counted as the best intellectual content”, you are probably living in the 1990s. Today, The Hindu has lost its sheen. Their editorials are so biased that they make no sense at all. I was a big fan of The Hindu in my teens. Nowadays my visit to The Hindu website are becoming rarer and rarer, and I am almost always disappointed by what I read there.

    Reply
  11. mahesh says:
    10 years ago

    This all newspaper editor must be given Gaumutra to drink then only there brain will work.

    Reply
  12. bharat bhushan says:
    10 years ago

    For improving English, comprehension skills and GS, I used to follow the editorials of the Hindu for years. But just before the Delhi elections, the editorials became the propaganda space where anyone with hard left-leaning could write articles day after day. So I was forced to unsubscribe it. Then I switched to the Indian express.
    But alas I could not continue it because of its anti-Indian approach(started with the reporting of shooting off a Pakistani boat 200 miles from the Gujrat coast) as they were adamant to show the Indian army in a bad way. As a hardcore NAMO supporter, it was very frustrating to read those kinds of biased articles. Now I have a subscription of TOI(just for news) as I didn’t know about other options.But thanks to you that I have other options now.

    Reply
  13. Indian says:
    10 years ago

    This is bullshit. The Hindu holds no brief for the Congress. The Telegraph is not left-wing and gives voice to all parties. All so, what does “blatantly centrist” even mean? Neither left nor right is centre, and its not a bad thing at all. Very amateur article. The Hindu remains to be, easily, the best of the newspapers. (it also, albeit rarely gives space to the right wing, Swamy, Vamsee Jhuluri have written several opinion pieces).

    Reply
  14. Hindu Philopher says:
    4 years ago

    This article is CRAP

    Reply

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