A correspondent, however lowly, could call him up at home. Preferably before 9 am.
So angry he was that he wanted curbs on the media because it hyped things. "If you do not show factually correct news, a calamity will befall you," the Indian Express quoted him as having said.
Three newspapers with a national presence have reported differently on the same event, picking what suited their line of thinking.
The DNA has launched a campaign that scoffs at the negative image that the media has portrayed of the country so far and seeks to focus on the positive.
The lead story on Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on February 1, 2011 was the newspaper itself.
An unwitting Star Mhaja camera mike recorded the andar ki baat between senior Congress men discussing fund raising for a Sonia rally.
When Thackeray’s grandson bamboozled the Mumbai University VC into banning a book few newspapers or channels took up the issue.
Every day, the newspaper announces the colour for the next day, and lo and behold, working women gather as they exit their workplaces and remind each other of the next day’s colour.
Can one safely assume that all correspondents who wrote stories were present at the press conference and had not covered it from the live teleast?
Was it a peer support to an offending newspaper because others too have been careless – even reckless – in how they approach a story?