Name calling, what?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/07/2016

Network 18 takes on the Times group? On being sold out to the BJP? Wow. We thought in India dog did not eat dog. And disclaimers about being competitors, etc. are in order. But Firstpost carried a piece on July 27 titled “Arnab Goswami's transformation from 'presstitute' to Pokémon Go-Swami” which called the Times Now chief editor ‘His Master’s Voice’ and much else, using Goswami’s nasty attack on Barkha Dutt as a peg. Seeing that Firstpost belongs to the Reliance-owned media group which Rajdeep Sardesai had to exit after the BJP came to power, this would be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

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