The cockroaches’ reckoning: How Gen Z protests exposed India’s ‘lapdog media’ and ushered in a new wave of reporters

As young demonstrators turned their backs on TV anchors, a new generation of phone-and-mic journalists covered a movement that shook the establishment. India’s massive youth-led movement didn’t just earn an unexpected retreat from the government. It also showed Gen Z’s distrust and anger toward the country’s legacy media, which they perceive as pro-establishment. Nowhere was this more evident than…