Carnival cut short

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/11/2013

TOI and ET fueled the pre-match hype on Friday morning with their 'Bharat Bandh' first leads. Rahul Gandhi and Aamir Khan were in the stands for the cameras to focus on. And technology ensured that when he got out less than two hours into today's play, the number of runs he scored in his final test was instantly emblazoned on the grass for the TV viewing public. The media industry will feel a bit cheated though at being done out of their last chance to live off Sachin Tendulkar quite so fast.

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