Private sector Doordarshan

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/09/2016

The Prime Minister’s image building is well served by the private sector Doordarshans his media outreach is spawning. If Times Now bit the bullet to get the first TV interview by a Indian channel with the PM, and has since pushed the govt’s case for interfering in Balochistan, CNN News18 followed up on September 2 with an enabling interview which Doordarshan would have had difficulty in matching. The interviewer Rahul Joshi asked charmingly enabling questions which made watching journalists squirm. They billed it as an interview in which Modi revealed his softer side. And when it ended, the interview morphed into an ad for Reliance Jio! What a package!

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