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IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/06/2013

The crash of the IAF rescue chopper M1 17 this evening in Gaurikund was picked up immediately by the private news channels but guess who carried on as if nothing had happened-- the great public service broadcaster, Doordarshan. Even as the news was breaking on all channels- DD carried on humming its way through some programme called "Metro Scan' and showed only a super below of the crash. At 6.30 pm when the Metro Scan ended and the news began..it had all other news except that of the chopper crash!It finally came on at 6.40 pm.

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