Media shut out – What is PM Modi’s message?

The Editors Guild of India has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting a “certain deficit in transparency in the functioning of the government”. The guild has said that diminishing access to journalists and the media runs against the grain of democratic functioning. On The Buck Stops here, we debate: By virtually shutting out the media, what message is the Modi government trying to send? And should the government enlarge access and engage more actively with journalists?

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