Divide and rule?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/01/2014

Is Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal trying to divide and rule the media? At a meeting he alleged journalists are honest but the media owners were biased and crooked. He went onto describe how a reporter told him that his/her editor had told him to 'go out and get a negative story on AAP' and when the reporter asked 2000 persons outside not one had anything negative to say about AAP!! A bit unbelievable isn't it? Meanwhile controversial Law Minister Somnath Bhartii asked reporters who were quizzing him - 'How much has Modi paid you?'

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