Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

Chapter 759: Kiran's surprise: (2/3)

Chapter 759: Kiran's surprise: (2/3)

Kiran's meeting with Vijay is unknown to almost everyone in the empire. 

In the meantime, the news about the separation of power in the military is further fermenting. The rumours are getting louder and louder, and the conspiracy theories are getting out of control. 

Some smaller newspaper publications could not resist the allure of expanding their reader base and started writing provocative articles that attracted eyeballs. 

"Military mutiny caused by the bill passed in the parliament." 

Surprisingly enough, the strategy worked because, in a matter of seven days, newspaper sales jumped from only a few thousand to tens of thousands. 

The business owners' eyes turned green with greed. The rumours and speculation only became more outrageous, causing even more sales. Mirroring these unscrupulous newspapers, some small publication newspapers from different states also started to take advantage of the situation and ruthlessly dug into the market of established media companies and their newspapers. 

In a matter of a few weeks, major newspaper companies saw a decline of over 35% in their sales, cutting profits by almost half. 

At first, most of the newspapers had the attitude of "let's wait and see." The liability on the owner of a newspaper company is very big. If something goes wrong in the newspaper company, the owner has to bear the full responsibility. Since the very beginning, when the constitution was set up almost half a decade ago, the Bharatiya Empire has strictly enacted a rule that newspaper and media companies focused on producing content for public consumption can only be sole proprietorships without any cross-holding. 

Although no restrictions have been placed on them as to what they could say and what they could not say, the intensity of punishments had not been restricted either, and it is up to the court to decide how severely the business owner has to be punished in case he is found guilty. 

No one wants to be the first bird to bear these consequences, so all the newspaper companies waited to see what would happen to the smaller companies. But as time passed, the situation became worse and worse since there had been no action from the government. Instead, their market was devoured little by little by the tiny pesky insects.