Curious, how is India Today generally regarded in India? I ask because to me the style and tone of this article sounds like something that came out of an elementary school newspaper. E.g. "It was still the talk of the town but for all the wrong reasons", "could be the result of Google removing user reviews so that the app could get some balance." The hackneyed cliches and oddly stating a presumption as fact just strike me as extremely juvenile.
I'm in no way saying US news is better, and it is often times much worse, but it's usually not worse in the way this article is.
It's kind of the state of Indian news media of this generation. All outlets are crazy for making even mundane coverage as dramatic as possible to compete.
India today is the most widely circulated magazine in India and had a lot of prominent journalist associated with it.
Unfortunately in this day of freelance writers, publications care more about views and speed than quality and this has happened to almost all print media be it Forbes(1) or India today.
I'm in no way saying US news is better, and it is often times much worse, but it's usually not worse in the way this article is.