Kejriwal drives the story

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/12/2015

Slum demolitions are not normally page 1 news for Delhi’s English press. A child could even die unnoticed. But when a CM gets into the act it drives the story. The news about the Shakurbasti night time demolitions by the railways on Dec 12 broke when Arvind Kejriwal tweeted at 11.17 pm. The TOI which was already carrying a slum demolition story, put in a related box. Nobody else had the news on Sunday, but everybody did on Monday, quoting the CM’s outrage, and by Tuesday, with other political parties jumping in, it was page one in every paper, 1^st lead in the Express.

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