Regional and class discrimination in COVID reporting Although discussions on the terrible form of COVID in India today are going on in the country and abroad, it is only a discussion of the metropolitan middle / upper class. Common urban areas and rural areas are missing from that discussion, the lower middle class / lower class, unpriveleged sections of society, women and children are missing. Indian journalism with all its flaws is limited to the discussion of metros and the upper class and upper middle class. The responsibility of collecting the news from the small places have been left to the local journalists who themselves work in such a coersive environment that it is not possible for them all the time to collect reliable news . Also, there is no system to integrate local journalism into national journalism. In addition, Indian journalism has also become hostage to Opinion Moguls. This journalism is so ...