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Newstalk: George Hook has been working at a station where the line between news and opinion has blurred

Newstalk: George Hook has been working at a station where the line between news and opinion has blurred

Last week Gauri Lankesh was shot dead by three masked men outside her home in Bangalore. She was a newspaper editor and a critic of right-wing extremism and of India’s Hindu nationalist government – and just one of at least 33 media workers killed so far this year for doing their jobs.

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