Look who's editorialising

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/04/2010

This takes the cake. The Times of India has the gall to run a middle edit titled "In Bad Taste" in which it says IPL coverage should inform not titillate, and specificially mentions reports on Sunanda Pushkar. Meanwhile its sister publication Mumbai Mirror is a major offender: it carried a story and pictures on a nose job Pushkar had long ago. What does that have to do with the Kochi IPL or the sweat equity issue?

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