Talk:The Times of India/Archives/2022/April
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Advertorials in the lead
The lead gives a concise, mostly satisfactory picture of the newspaper in India, and the reader is likely left with a favorable view on the subject, the article's body notwithstanding. However, editors on Wikipedia are cautioned on its reliability, and a significant part in that assessment seems to be that in spite of its reputation as a newspaper of record, The Times of India in recent decades is notorious for conventionalizing paid news at the expense of slanting its own coverage in favor of its advertisers in exchange for payments. Here is not arguing that we write articles about newspapers based on our own analyses of the sources. Rather, it seems awfully noteworthy to me that a once-revered newspaper like The Times has since led the news industry of India into employing sketchy "advertorials", and would make sense to add that to the lead as a counterbalance to the positive overtones of its reception. FreeMediaKid$ 18:54, 12 April 2022 (UTC)