If lying and bullshitting is journalism, Times Now is doing a fine job of it.
Public health is an emotional subject. Even if our politicians do not give a damn to the state of the public health centers & hospitals, quality of doctors, quacks and fake medicines, they are expected to be sensitive to these issues in their grand utterances and policy statements, at least. So, when Rajasthan government reduces VAT on tobacco products and claims it is in public interest and Times Now takes up this issue for discussion with taglines that state government is playing with public health, helping the spread of cancer by promoting sale of tobacco products, they project an image of vigilant media, ready to defend public causes and exposing the big, bad government which works for corporates. When they add a bit of Lalit Modi with undeclared interests in trade of tobacco products with a quid pro quo stretched from some other holding it becomes a full blown scam embellished with public interest, an issue of the size which can cause governments to fall. The whole