Award as stain remover?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/11/2015

The Ramnath Goenka award for the best broadcast journalist in Hindi for 2013 was given to Sudhir Chaudhary of the Zee-Jindal extortion case fame. A wag wants to know if journalism awards have become stain-removers. As for Chaudhary who is a leading anchor of Zee News, he quizzed Aamir Khan during the award ceremony on why the Dadri incident caused more grief than the killing of a colonel by militants in Kupwara.

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