Thuglak magazine Fake News
It is not even a month since the passing away of the founding editor ‘Cho’ Ramaswamy, of the Tamil political magazine Thuglak, and it has already deteriorated into a Fake News peddler. Till Cho was alive, the magazine was worth reading – even if some of the views, opinions, and conclusions were anti-liberal or against Centre-left policies. Long time readers of Thuglak, like myself, used to feel that Cho Ramaswamy consciously tried to maintain or impose a sense of neutrality on the subject being discussed. When I first heard that Gurumurthy is set to take over as the succeeding editor, I commented that Thuglak is set to become a outright BJP trash very soon. But never in my dreams did I think it would happen so soon. Before we go into specifics, let us understand the difference between a print media or a blog or a TV holding true to a particular political philosophy (liberal, conservative, left, right, etc.) versus becoming a wholesale propaganda for a partic...