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KCR Succeeds In Taming Media!

KCR Succeeds In Taming Media!

After more or less decimating the Opposition parties by emerging triumphant in all the elections held in Telangana in the last two years, besides luring majority of their MLAs into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has also successfully tamed all the media in Hyderabad to ensure that there is no anti-establishment atmosphere in the State.

It was evident from the way almost all the newspapers and television news channels carried special stories on KCR’s power-point presentation on irrigation projects in the Assembly the other day and they lavished praises on the Chief Minister.

There was hardly any space allotted to the criticism by the Opposition parties. Needless to say, the TRS government released massive advertisements to all these media a day before and after the presentation.

Till the other day, Andhra Jyothy daily promoted by pro-Chandrababu Naidu businessman Vemuri Radhakrishna was the only newspaper which was attacking the TRS government and exposing the misdeeds of the TRS leaders.

Now, even this daily has fallen into the trap of KCR. On Tuesday, TRS minister for irrigation Harish Rao came all the way to the Andhra Jyothy office and took part in the lucky draw for its readers. He was all praise for Radhakrishna for standing by the people and supporting the government.

The two Telugu dailies promoted by the Communist parties – Mana Telangana (CPI) and Nava Telangana (CPM) are in deep crisis and even if they write anti-government stories, they are no takers as their circulation is minimal. Even these two dailies have now stopped anti-TRS stories for the sake of advertisements.

A couple of cash-rich Congress leaders have plans to launch their own dailies, but they are not daring to take a plunge, as they are not confident of the party coming to power in the near future!

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