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[Arul Selvan]

Most publishers have now given up the business of having an independent
editor. In more and more cases, the publisher or the person who
owns/controls the shares has become the editor: The Statesman, The
Telegraph, Deccan Herald, etc. In other cases, the distinction was never
there, as in the Indian language press and others like The Hindu — which is
not to say that editorial standards are necessarily worse in such
publications, for in some cases they are better. And where a newspaper with
editorial attitude is struggling financially, the shareholder has taken
revenge by asking the editor to pay for his joys by taking on the
publisher’s burden of finding the money: The Indian Express, Business Standard.

In other words, the editor who is responsible solely for the editorial
output is an endangered species and non-existent in the Indian language
media. So much then for the Chinese wall between church and State!

Source:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_170262,00120002.htm