Firstpost attributes the founding of
Saamana to Thackeray's dissatisfaction about the amount of press he and his party received in other news outlets. It has been described it as a mouthpiece of the
Shiv Sena, providing a link to Thackeray that did not exist previously.
Firstpost also reports that while other newspapers allowed bias to creep into their news coverage,
Saamana provided relatively unbiased news coverage of government policy and civic matters. It was only news about the Shiv Sena that was biased. Bal Thackeray edited both newspapers until his death on 17 November 2012. To honour him, Thackeray's son
Uddhav Thackeray named him as the "founder-editor". In September 2020, the newspaper came into controversy for publishing an article with the title 'Tod Diya' which means 'We Broke It' in Hindi. This article referred to the demolition of the office of the Bollywood actress
Kangana Ranaut by the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. ==See also==