BBC News - Slow erosion in India's trust in the news: "The reputation of India's media as a watchdog, exposing corruption and other wrongdoing, has taken a battering following allegations that some publications and broadcasters were being paid to print favourable stories during the 2009 general election.
Bumping along potholed cart tracks, standing in the back of an open jeep alongside a candidate driving to an election meeting, I asked him whether he had been asked to pay for coverage.
The candidate replied forcefully: 'I was asked to pay for what the journalists call 'packages'."
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