Can't win with Arnab

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/07/2015

BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli, facing fire from Time Now Editor in Chief Arnab on Lalitgate (July 1), posed a question- "By this yardstick if you are a journalist in Times Now, you cannot have a spouse working in the government". If Kohli thought he would leave this as a rhetorical question, Goswami wasn't going to have it. His quick reparte was - If a Times Now journalist has a spouse in the government, that is fine..but if the spouse is trying to do illegal things which helps the company, Times Now, then that is a crime!". Kohli was stumped by that one.

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