No niceties for Mallya

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/04/2017

How a does a journalist on Twitter deal with a subject like Mallya's arrest and release on bail, and the start of extradition proceedings? Without niceties. The Indian ones are rude, the foreign ones chummy. "Sorry Mr Mallya please don't bluff..." says Bhupendra Chaubey of CNNNews18. The business reporter of CNN Money says "Hi there, do you have any further comment..."etc and ends with "Pls get back to me ASAP". The Guardian reporter hails him with"Hi Vijay" and then introduces himself.

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