Selective reporting

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/05/2008

The news of the recent murder in Mumbai of Neeraj Grover, creative head of Synergy AdLabs and a producer of Kya Aap Panchvi Paas Se Tez Hain, the popular quiz programme being currently aired on Star Plus, gave rise to selective use of information. While all news channels ran with this detail, Star News, sister channel of Star Plus, somehow overlooked it and instead detailed the programmes he produced while he was with Balajee Telefilms.

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