In an interview to discuss and analyse the media coverage of the Bihar election campaign, the former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu, one of India’s most highly regarded journalists, N. Ram has said that India’s news television channels “must be amongst the worst in the world”.In a 24-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Ram said: “Broadcast television … has been awful. It must be amongst the worst in the world, whether you look at either the Hindi television sector or the so-called national TV news channels, they’ve been awful for the most part. Almost overwhelmingly.”