CM says some journalists are acting as a catspaw of their corporate owners

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated that immoderate journalists were acting arsenic catspaws of their firm owners. 

Speaking astatine a conclave organised by the Kerala Media Academy, Mr. Vijayan said that definite journalists were being cowed into soundlessness by the Central government-backed firm houses, which person acquired a wide swathe of media outlets crossed the country. 

“Few others followed the governmental docket acceptable by their employers,” helium added. 

Mr. Vijayan said the corporate-controlled media was pursuing an assertive quality docket that sought to disagreement the state on spiritual lines to obfuscate the livelihood issues plaguing the radical nether the neo-liberal authorities astatine the Centre. “We are seeing what is happening successful Republic TV,” helium added. 

Mr. Vijayan said the autarkic media faced existential challenges nether the existent disposition astatine the Centre. Critics of the authorities are labelled traitors and are either jailed oregon killed.

Mr. Vijayan spotlighted the beingness of the Palestinian Ambassador to India Abdullah Abu Shawesh astatine the event. 

“Palestine has a peculiar spot successful the hearts of Keralites. Palestinians are warring for their precise beingness arsenic a people, and they are people heroes successful Kerala. Generations of Keralites person grown up proceeding the storied and iconic conflict of Palestinians for nationhood and the close of self-determination,” helium said. 

“Kerala’s noted writer M. Leelavathy said the excruciating plight of Gazans nether Israeli concern and genocide had distressed her truthful overmuch that she could not bring herself to devour without the faces of starving families, particularly children, coming to her mind,” helium said. 

Mr. Vijayan noted that Israel’s bombardment and subject assaults connected Gaza had claimed 65,000 lives, including those of women, children, journalists, assistance workers and doctors, since the penetration commenced successful October last. “Ms. Leelavathy’s agony is emblematic of Kerala’s anguish for the beleaguered radical of Palestine,” helium said.