Being circumspect

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/06/2014

Newspapers continue to soft pedal on news concerning media houses. An IndiaTV anchor putting a suicide note on Facebook and then attempting suicide should be news by the yardstick of the current tabloidised media. But the Hindu reported it without mentioning the name of the TV channel, it named the two executives she had mentioned in her note but not the proprietor's wife, whom she had also mentioned. The Hindustan Times did not report it and the Times of India had a single column story inside. The Express reported the incident in its local news pullout but gave all details.

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