Blooper

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/01/2014

In the high voltage coverage that Sunanda Pushkar's death unleashed on TV channels, NEWS X which was doing a programme dramatically titled "Life, Marriage and Death" erroneously killed off the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. In a report on how Tharoor had writtent to Shinde, it put out this embarrassing blooper: "the post mortem report on Shinde's death will be crucial". Doubtless it meant 'postmortem report on Sunanda's death will be crucial'!

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