[6][8] As per an opinion piece by Debasish Roy Chowdhury for Time magazine, Modi's ascension to national power, in 2014, led to the taming of India's media.
A thematic comparison of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels and the post-2014 Indian media highlights the failure of individuals not taking a stand against the tide of the times and instead going with the flow.
This was accompanied by miming what the currently ruling party leaders wanted to listen to, using the Hindi film song "Bagon Mein Bahar Hai".
[24][25] Arnab Goswami of Republic TV attained notoriety by portraying an assembly of migrant workers at Bandra railway station demanding from the government to make arrangements for them to return home during the COVID-19 lockdown as an assembly of Muslims gathered purportedly on the orders of the imam of a local mosque in an attempt to deliberately spread the viral infection among Hindus in an act of jihad,[26] following reports of similar accusations of biological terrorism being levied against Muslim vegetable sellers in Uttar Pradesh by the BJP IT cell[27] in the backdrop of a Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi being classified as a superspreader of the disease, drawing on similar antisemitic tropes of well-poisoning.
In the run-up to the 2024 general elections, the Congress led Opposition alliance had decided to boycott talkshows hoisted by 14 anchors including Arnab Goswami and others like Amish Devgan, Shiv Aroor and Sudhir Chaudhury, all of whom are noted for their sycophancy towards the BJP and were considered as the representative faces of "godi media".
[28] Chaudhury had caught national headlines for coining the term 'gaming jihad' by claiming that Hindu teenagers were being lured into converting into Islam by Muslims through interactions held in online gaming platforms like Twitch & Discord.
[30] Another anchor, Rajat Sharma, who became renowned for his unabashed flattery of Narendra Modi during the elections,[31] was caught on live camera for allegedly hurling derogatory abuses towards a Congress spokesperson.
[42][43] Canada has in turn criticised the Godi media's propaganda as 'state sponsored disinformation' targeted to manipulate opinion among the Canadian Sikh diaspora before the general elections.