Well it is the Indian navy, but I prefer not to make judgements based on nationalistic press reporting. However, I am a bit more skeptical on news reporting from China due to heavier governmental influence and censorship versus Indian press. The "great firewall" and strict reporting guidelines is not merely western propoganda
Depends on the context. Chinese state media is actually sometimes more accurate at reporting some China specific events without modification specifically due to the lack of necessity of sensationalizing certain news. You rarely see "click bait" and fabricated "fake news" out of Chinese state media, for instance.
If anything, Chinese state media reports on certain military events and developments exclusive to China are often the gold standard for determining how those Chinese military related events actually unfolded.
I would also move to argue that censorship of some media is not equal to inaccurate reporting in the rest of the uncensored media. There is a difference between trying to create propaganda by omission of certain types of news stories versus propaganda by fabrication of certain news stories.
But overall in this case, I think the jury is still out on this matter given it is essentially the Chinese Navy's relaying of events to Chinese media vs Indian Navy's relaying of events to Indian media.
Either the Indian Navy are right and they had played a constructive in the event and the Chinese Navy are being petty and trying to take all the glory for themselves, or the Chinese Navy are right and the Indian Navy are being petty and making it seem like they played some sort of meaningful role in the event when in reality they did not contribute anything meaningful at all and are trying to make themselves look good.
So I wouldn't pin this on the media per se but rather on the Navies of the two respective countries who conducted the operation and the perception of each other's role in the operation.
