Saying goodbye

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/02/2015

On Feb. 9 Derek O'Brien, quizmaster and a Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP, published on his blog his letter to Aveek Sarkar, the chief editor of the ABP Group, in which he said that he would no longer be writing his three columns for Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph. He said he woke up every morning to “appalling, tendentious, biased and polemical reportage and commentary that seeks to sensationalise and misrepresent even the most basic facts”. He added that the Group's current leadership and management was unequal to the "rich, disinterested and intellectually honest legacy it had inherited.” The ABP Group has been sharply critical of the ruling party for some time now.

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