Exclusive, earlier

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/04/2013

A reader writes, when CNN was telecasting the video around 9.35 am today of the boat and its fluttering tarpaulin cover, it had a slug, 'Exclusive to CNN, Earlier" meaning others too had it by then. That was when the person who found the suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing in the boat was being interviewed. Contrast it with Indian news TV - everyone claims exclusives, every channel claims credit for the same stuff.

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