TOI's royalty fixation

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/05/2015

The Times of India seems to have forgotten India has been a republic for over six decades. Its headline on May 28 was "Mysuru prepares for next king's coronation". The copy has words like "yuvaraja", "23-year-old king", and also "royal family". Its royalty fixation continued on some web editions with how he would be "anointed" as "the maharaja of Mysuru". The Hindu in its recent reports put coronation in inverted commas, and pointed out how it "has little significance as the institution of the maharajas have long been abolished".

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