Sudhir Chaudhury rails again

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/03/2016

Zee TV now spends a lot of its energy countering real and imagined attacks on its JNU coverage, specially its videos.  Late last  night anyone who tuned into Zee News caught Sudhir Chaudhury holding up offending English newspapers (HT, IE, TOI) and railing against their coverage of the JNU episodes. Next he turned his attention to the Delhi government's report by a district magistrate, including the latter's detailed comments on the videos examined. First Chaudhury fulminated about the Delhi  govt going to a private lab. Imagine! Then it used the private lab report to exonerate itself. Its line about Zee's own videos is "100 per cent shudh video."

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