Rana Ayyub on the tragedy in India: 'This reporting that we do is now at our doorstep'

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Rana Ayyub, a journalist based in Mumbai and a Washington Post global opinions writer, describes the perilous state of the pandemic in India and the limitations on journalists who are covering the crisis. "The carnage continues unabated," she says. But "how do you also report at a time when your own family members are losing their lives?" Ayyyb also discusses the media's relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She says "journalism is happening in India, but the gatekeepers are not allowing the truth to kind of get on the front pages." She asserts that "everything has been taken over by the Modi government. It's a one-man show." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Journalism in India is on a ventilator.
0:06.4	Those are the words of a prominent Mumbai-based reporter who is trying to warn the world both
0:11.9	about the COVID surge there as well as about restrictions on the media.
0:18.6	So what is the state of the media and democracy in India and what's the latest on the devastation
0:26.2	of the pandemic in the country?
0:28.8	Those are a couple of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.
0:32.8	So here we are.
0:33.8	Let's cue the music.
0:34.8	I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth with media
0:41.2	leaders and newsmakers about how the news is made, how it gets out and around the world.
0:48.6	And lately I'm sure you've seen so much news coverage from and about the devastating
0:55.5	death toll in India, the struggle to survive in many cases, so many patients trying to
1:02.7	find oxygen, trying to find help as the pandemic takes a terrible toll there.
1:09.1	Rana Ayub is one of the journalists who is covering this story firsthand who is experiencing
1:16.0	it in her own life and is trying to raise some alarms.
1:20.7	Ayub spoke with CNN's Christian on Amampur a couple of days ago and said we have parallel
1:26.3	realities in India.
1:28.6	She said journalism here is on ventilator.
1:32.1	Those words, those warnings caught my attention and I asked her to come on the podcast here
1:36.5	and tell me more about the situation.
1:40.3	Rana is a global opinions writer for the Washington Post.
1:43.7	She also freelances for other outlets and she is joining me now from Mumbai.
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