When Indira Gandhi introduced media censorship as part of the Emergency in 1975, Indian newspapers ran blank editorials as a form of protest.
The Kannada newspaper Vijaya Karnataka, belonging to The Times of India group, runs a blank (and black) editorial today, in protest against what happened in the State legislative assembly on Monday, during the trust vote moved by the chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa.
And in white type set on 60% black, editor Vishweshwar Bhat writes this small footnote at the bottom:
“The unseemly occurrences in the assembly on Monday should make every citizen bow his head in shame. The manner in which our elected representatives behaved is unpardonable. They have dealt a deadly blow to democracy. While criticising this, we symbolically represent the silent outrage of the people in this form.”
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IJR 
During the Emergency, those news papers who have published blank editorials were protesting about censorship and the ensuing curtailment of the freedom of expression. Please remember that during emergency, the TOI had obediently toed the government line.
The situation in Karnataka now is quite different. Nobody is trying to censor anyone, now. So, the publication of a blank editorial is only a cheap, puerile publicity stunt. Had the BJP government could and did impose censorship in Karnataka, the TOI and Vijaya Karnataka would promptly and obediently have toed the government line.