Can't tell you his name

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/09/2016

Why do newspapers have so much trouble publishing the name of a TV anchor who is in the news? AAP's health minister Kapil Mishra published the phone number of Deepak Chaurasia of India News and he was threatened, leading his wife to file a police complaint. The Hindu, HT, TOI all reported this minus his identity while Mishra was of course named. HT named him online, but not in the paper!

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