PM not news?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/04/2014

Considering he has hardly addressed any rally this time, when Manmohan Singh does so (last we checked he was still the PM), shouldn't it make big news? His rally in Bhongir in Hyderabad on April 26, was reduced to a one-para item on page 9 by the Sunday TOI. the para said the PM referred to some `hate speeches' (inverted commas in the original) by BJP and VHP. One would have liked to hear more. Incidentally, on the same page, titled `dance of democracy', were three stories about what the BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain, Rahul Gandhi and NaMo had said, all longer than the PM report.

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