Sting or not?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/11/2007

The arrest of two scribes in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh was being seen as further proof of chief minister Y S Rajsekhara Reddy¿s allergy to the media.They had bribed a local functionary to sanction houses in the names of a state minister and others under the Indiramma scheme. While the media calls it a sting the State police have said that the two reporters had a criminal motive and were not exposing corruption.

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