India, June 6 -- At the Jantar Mantar protest by Cockroach Janta Party, an online movement seeking to translate its instant virality into on-the-ground impact within three weeks, distrust of the media emerged as a key theme among participants in Delhi on Saturday.

While the protest called by CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, who returned from the US in the morning, remained peaceful, a section of the protestors wanted less of the mainstream media there. "Hum Godi Media se baat nahi kareinge," said a number of protesters to multiple news outlets, using the popular term for 'lapdog' or pro-government media that has evidently reached the Gen-Z lexicon too. Slogans to that effect were raised too, such as "media-walo bahar niklo" ('get out, you med...