Indian Express clarifies

IN Media Watch Briefs | 06/06/2016

The Indian Express has contradicted the Hoot report on newspapers carrying a baseless story on a law student dying while taking a selfie. It clarifies that they never had this misleading report, and in fact had two subsequent reports which gave the correct version. The Hoot's link was to their Facebook page which had a video on the "perfect selfie" version. The paper says that was an unedited ANI video, not put together by them as the Hoot reported. Except that on Facebook the video carried the Express logo, as did the text alongside. The video has now been removed from Facebook and YouTube.

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