BCCL vs Arnab:Neither looks good

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/05/2017

Times Now has registered a case of theft against Republic TV . The charges are about tapes played for Republic's scoop no.1 and scoop no. 2 after the channel's launch. A segment of the taped conversation between Mohammad Shahabuddin and Lalu Prasad Yadav, and then the tapes played of the reporter Padma Sridevi talked to Sunanda Pushkar's domestic employee Narayan. It makes you wonder about two things. Why did the Times Group not let these stories be used when the duo were in their employ, and two, after this long gestation period all Arnab G could launch with is these two old stories?

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