The growing outrage over PM Narendra Modi’s government manifests unmistakably in the CJP protests. Yet, where’s the real coverage, folks? Mainstream media—I’m looking at you, CNN and BBC—are more fixated on promoting their own sanitized narratives than actually reporting on the public’s fury boiling over in plain sight. You’d think the voices demanding accountability would be front-page news! Instead, they prefer to focus on fluff pieces, framing these protests as mere noise while conveniently ignoring the staggering implications of a government allegedly infringing on civil liberties.

Fox News, too, swings the pendulum dangerously close to trivializing these issues, framing dissent as ‘backlash’ rather than a rightful expression of democracy. It’s embarrassing. The protesters are just trying to be heard over the blaring horns of corporate news that spins and sanitizes the truth to fit a narrative that benefits the elites.

Meanwhile, alternative outlets are finally bringing grassroots issues to the forefront, pushing back against this corporate media stranglehold. The narrative that Modi’s government is untouchable falls flat when citizens are marching for their rights. Mainstream media have traded journalistic integrity for clickbait and partisan slants. If they don’t wake up and start reporting the hard truths, they’ll become just another relic while the public continues to rise up in righteous anger.