Hardline Arnab

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/01/2013

If you watched the Times Now 'exclusive' interview with the Lt. General heading the Northern Command (January 15) you would have thought the army had handpicked this channel to communicate to the nation through. But Lt. Gen. Parnaik had done a general media briefing on the same day, carried by other channels. What was exclusive as always was Arnab Goswami's pushing of the hardline: Was it conceivable in the light of these developments that AFSPA could be withdrawn, he asked the officer.

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