Mamata vs Zee blacked out?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 30/12/2016

It is interesting to see who have been reporting the story on Mamata Banerjee's government filing an FIR against Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee News for his reporting of the Dhulagarh riots. And who have not. Chaudhary says the media is blacking this out. Reporting over the last two days has come from exchange4media, DNA, right wing websites, and the New Indian Express. As of the early hours of Dec 30, no reporting on it is available from the Indian Express, The Hindu, Times of India, and The Telegraph. And of course Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien's Twitter account, otherwise vociferous, is silent on this development.

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