Selective news judgment

IN Media Watch Briefs | 24/08/2002

The fact that two cabinet ministers, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Omar Abdullah had taken objection to Narendra Modi¿s attacks on the Chief Election Commissioner was news for almost every newspaper, and front page news for three or four of them. But it was not news for the Pioneer which did not report either minister¿s comments, made at separate fora.

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