On Friday, Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi authorities was uncovered by a Supreme Court-monitored audit committee for inflating the nationwide capital’s peak oxygen demand by 4 occasions in April-May, thus depriving twelve excessive caseload states of medical oxygen which they desperately required for saving lives. One would have thought that India’s “brave, independent and objective” media would have questioned and gone after Arvind Kejriwal and his coterie of oxygen scarcity orchestrators. That is what the media ought to ideally do. Report on a improper – a murderous one on this case, after which usher in its prime weapons to make culpable politicians remorse ever selecting politics.Indian media, nonetheless, is spun out of a unique, low-quality and degradable material. Therefore, regardless of Arvind Kejriwal’s authorities having been uncovered because the one which inflated Delhi’s oxygen demand astronomically, Indian media determined to provide a whole cross to the information.Ideally, primetime information ought to have been replete with debates, discussions and monologues of how the AAP authorities of Delhi lied by means of its enamel through the devastating second wave of Covid-19, misled the very best of courts, and judicially strongarmed the Centre at a time when it was overburdened with the duty of delivering oxygen to all states. Arvind Kejriwal, nonetheless, made all of it about Delhi and himself.Yet, the media appears least to name out Kejriwal and his coterie of oxygen hoarders. And why is that? It is as a result of the Aam Aadmi Party has been allegedly flushing Indian digital media with money – huge quantities of money – throughout at least a pandemic when the business as a complete has taken a monetary hit.As reported by TFI, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP authorities of Delhi spent Rs 32.52 crore on ads in January 2021, Rs 25.33 crore in February 2021, and Rs 92.48 crore in March 2021.In totality, for the yr 2021, Rs 467 crore has been earmarked as a publicity finances by Kejriwal’s Delhi authorities. Last yr, this determine stood at Rs 355 crore. With a complete of Rs 822 crore being spent on ads and publicity on Delhi within the final two years, Arvind Kejriwal has seemingly purchased main Indian media organisations – who now merely can not collect the braveness to query Delhi’s supreme chief.The Kejriwal authorities is reportedly ruthless with journalists who dare query its malpractices. Furthermore, again in May, seven Hindustan Times journalists have been thrown out of an official WhatsApp group after their paper wrote an article important of the AAP authorities’s dealing with of the oxygen disaster in Delhi amidst the rising COVID-19 pandemic.जिस रिपोर्टर ने कोरोना प्रबंधन में दिल्ली सरकार की 5 बड़ी लापरवाही उजागर की,उसे प्रवक्ता ने आधिकारिक मीडिया वाट्सअप ग्रुप से बाहर कर दिया। क्या दिल्ली सरकार की यही है अभिव्यक्ति की आजादी?कुछ साल पहले 1 टीवी पत्रकार को भी ऐसे बाहर किया गया था।दिल्ली सरकार को सच्चाई बतानी चाहिए pic.twitter.com/ajGHKEcniL— Navneet Mishra (@navneetmishra99) May 7, 2021Hindustan Times had printed a report headlined, “Anatomy of Capital oxygen crisis: 5 things Delhi govt didn’t get right”. The AAP authorities neither appreciated the headline, nor the content material of the report, which is why seven journalists from the organisation have been unceremoniously kicked out of an official WhatsApp group. What’s worse, regardless of being a bunch of 150 journalists, solely a handful of them spoke out in opposition to the therapy meted out to the HT staff.So, the media is punished by Kejriwal if it speaks out in opposition to his authorities. Needless to say, the Aam Aadmi Party will not be allegedly paying a whole lot of crores to the media for it to report critically of the Delhi authorities. What Kejriwal expects is loyalty and subservience – unquestionable and unflinching. Therefore, regardless of having been caught making a false oxygen demand in Delhi through the peak disaster, the Indian media has largely ignored AAP’s crimes – thus placing journalism to disgrace as soon as once more.