No news for Jaya channels

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/12/2015

While TV channels all over the country are full of footage on the Chennai floods the channels belonging to the ruling AIADMK-- Jaya TV, Jaya Plus and Jaya Max-- are  either unable or unwilling to telecast any news at this time. Jaya Plus has an endless lead-in to a bulletin which never comes. And guess who has been telecasting news right through and blasting the government?  The DMK's Sun News. News7 Tamil,  Makkal TV and Thanti TV are on the job too, unlike Jaya TV’s  endless serials and song and dance routines.  

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