The Times of India, one of the India’s biggest newspapers, has openly criticised Indian television news for its outrageous, false, and dangerous reporting during Pak-India conflict.
In an article titled “When Indian TV News Made Social Media Look Sane,” the Indian outlet admits that TV channels crossed all limits of responsible journalism. From claiming the Indian Navy had destroyed Karachi port, to falsely reporting that Pakistani fighter jets were shot down and that Pakistan’s Prime Minister was hiding in a bunker , all of it was fiction. None of it was verified. None of it was true.
The Times describes this media madness as a “televised hallucination,” where anchors turned studios into war zones and screamed propaganda without a shred of evidence. Their own words? “Prime-time news went rogue.”
The irony is hard to miss: an Indian media giant accusing its own TV journalists of spreading more fake news than even social media. It shows how broken the Indian information system has become , where nationalism sells better than truth.
International outlets like The Economist and The New York Times also slammed Indian news channels, accusing them of warmongering and irresponsibility. But now, even Indian print media can’t ignore it.
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For Pakistan, this rare honesty confirms what many have long argued, that Indian TV media operates less like journalism and more like a nationalistic performance. With truth sacrificed for TRPs, even India’s own institutions are starting to admit the shame.
