Indicting Indian media
Ram Reddy has written a very nice piece (The great media let-down) in The Hindu indicting the media. Elections 2004 exposed how "embedded" Indian media have been.
Inadvertently, I suppose, Ram ranks the main reason third: "The third reason why mediapersons did not ask the questions they were supposed to ask is that by the late 1990s, most of them silently or openly endorsed the Hindutva agenda."
Ammu Joseph has an article, Through Asian eyes, on the Asia Media Summit held in Kuala Lumpur in April.