Media not barking

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/11/2017

Caravan breaks a story on the death of the CBI Judge hearing the Amit Shah case, the link is widely shared. But the media silence in the aftermath has been deafening. Speaking at a book launch on Nov 24 Arun Shourie called it a criminal silence and said that mainstream media had its mouth shut by the government by being given ads. "A dog with a bone in its mouth can't bark," he said. Every media house should have been running to develop this story, he said. The Wire also has this story on the media silence.

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