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Paid advertisements or sponsored material presented in editorial-like formats, and related questions of labelling and media accountability.
The Hindu clearly labelled Dera Sacha Sauda’s full-page defence of convicted rapist Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as an advertisement, but the episode still raises a distinct media-accountability question: what responsibility does a publisher retain for consequential claims it is paid to carry? The evidence supports scrutiny of advertising standards, not assumptions about The Hindu’s motive…
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