It is important to keep these in-built biases in mind when discussing the heavily lopsided coverage of “growing intolerance” in the country, a phrase invented to nail all the blame for it at Narendra Modi’s door. It is worthwhile remembering that for 55 of the 68 years since Independence, it is the Congress party that has been in power; and in those 55 years, 47 were run directly or indirectly by a member of the Gandhi family (one counts the Manmohan Singh years as a Gandhi family tenure since the former PM himself has accepted that the primary centre of power was Sonia Gandhi; the only exceptions to Gandhi family rule were the Narasimha Rao and Lal Bahadur Shastri years). This backdrop explains why the Lutyens media has been feeding off the Gandhi family and vice versa. It has no love lost for an interloper like Narendra Modi, who, to make matters worse, does not think it is important to wine and dine the media. He leaves that largely to Arun Jaitley, and the latter surely gets a good press in the bargain.