One year after its launch Telangana today which according to Wikipedia aims to “mainly focus on politics and developments of Telangana state”, has been focusing only on K T Rama Rao. Evident from today’s edition, wherein every page had some news about him.
The editor ahead of the launch held the thought that despite the tag, the newspaper will remain unbiased and hopes to redefine local content. Leave alone redefining, the prediction about the daily, that it cannot write against the ruling party has certainly come true.
However, the daily has been diligently elevating KTR even though there are 3 other members from the same family in the party. If given a chance, they daily might intrude in his personal life and write stories because even if he speaks in Hindi, cracks a joke, rides a bike everything has to be reported. Since KCR has been confined to his office-cum-home, the newspaper stands out akin to “bhajana” paper of KTR, not even TRS.
Instead of helping get KCR further hold on the media, it is not even getting hold of TRS. Even the sister publication of the Telugu daily ‘Namaste Telangana’ reports some local issues in its city edition, but if one reads Telangana Today, it makes the youngest state sound like a dream land with no issues.
