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‘Fake news is an oxymoron: If it is fake, it cannot be news’

‘Fake news is an oxymoron: If it is fake, it cannot be news’

Amidst the Corona catastrophe, it is the journalists who have become “the only window to the world for a majority of its population,” states Professor KG Suresh, Dean, UPES School of Modern Media, commemorating the World Press Freedom Day

Ekta Kashyap School of Liberal Studies

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