Junctures of civil unrest in Kashmir invariably call forth the reflexive attitude of blaming the messenger, making any form of restraint on the working of the valley’s journalists – which often stretch all the way to active repression — a perfectly permissible stratagem for restoring order.
Since the upsurge in civil unrest in Kashmir in June 2010, media practitioners claim, their situation in terms of daily work routines, has deteriorated sharply. Accessing news sites has now become an ordeal and gaining authentic information on the disturbances that break out with alarming regularity, virtually impossible.