Election debate?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/02/2012

The 24x7 channels have turned on the election tap in full force. But some of them take the cake. Star News had Deepak Chaurasia doing a live debate programme with politicians and an assembled audience somewhere in Uttar Pradesh with cameras mounted on cranes. The amazing audience was all male, as though women in UP do not vote! When asked a question by the anchor they would
shout, abuse,and almost descend to fisticuffs with those whose views differed. Reasoned debate, UP style.

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