> but the apt metaphor for some of the cited outlets would be that they protest for [ opposites ]
You might be confused about media outlets.
They are not homogenous, they have many people working for them, and their primary task is covering what's happening; both those parties that are pro tree and those parties that are pro road.
And I trust and hope that I am able to make that distinction before I lay out my allegations :).
I don't want this to become a game of "supplying the evidence" because that also becomes a game of the "skeptical party" DoSing the "earnest party". What I said was a best-effort distillation of my takeaways from years of following Indian news media, both free and paid.
You might be confused about media outlets.
They are not homogenous, they have many people working for them, and their primary task is covering what's happening; both those parties that are pro tree and those parties that are pro road.