Anticlimax

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/03/2012

The Hindu interview with the army chief which dominated the airwaves on Monday night was done a week before it appeared, not used for a mundane reason--Vidya Subramaniam did not have time to write it earlier. And the ETV interview which all the channels had on the 26th night was in fact aired on ETV before the Hindu interview was published, but nobody noticed it when it initially surfaced! Something has to be on a big English daily to become big news.

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Gen V K Singh The Hindu

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