Who owns the media in India ?
There are several major publishing groups in India, the most
prominent
among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express
Group, the
Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika
Group, the
Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group,
the
Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.
Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.
NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity
in Spain
supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards
Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel
to be
aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash
Karat,
General Secretary of Communist party of India.His wife and Brinda
Karat are
sisters.
India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported
BJP is
now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically
and turned
into Hindu bashing.
CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with
its
branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually
allocates
$800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is
Rajdeep
Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.
Times group list:
Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijaya
Times,
Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more.
Times
Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council' does
80
percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally
share
balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative
of Sonia
Gandhi.
Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters
Pontificial Church Melbourne.
Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since
Shobana
Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration with
Times
Group.
The Hindu:
English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over
by
Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland. N.Ram's wife is a Swiss
national.
Indian Express: Divided into two groups.
The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition)
ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express
and later
is still with the Indian counterpart.
Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.
Ramoji Rao
is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra
Pradesh.
Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along
with a
Congress Minister has purchased this Telgu daily very recently.
The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India. Kairal
TV: It
is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)
Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have
major
investment.
Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company
with
its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.
The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners.
The
result is obvious.