Denials all round

IN Media Watch Briefs | 24/08/2002

Denials all round

The Hindustan Times story involving Pratibha Advani, the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister, on a grant of land in Uttaranchal at throwaway rates, turns out to have been false. The paper had the grace to deny it on the same page and with the same space that it gave the original story. And the Pioneer, ever loyal, carried the denial even more prominently, on page 1, though it did not report the original allegation.

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