Tale of two channels

IN Media Watch Briefs | 18/08/2012

The former home minister of Haryana, Gopal Goyal Kanda, is absconding after his name figured in the suicide note of a former employee. Amidst the incessant coverage one channel is sympathetic: Haryana News repeatedly scrolls the fact that his family is being harrassed. But another channel called India News Haryana owned by Congress politician Venod Sharma repeatedly shows a picture of the absconding former minister and asks viewers to tell the police if they have seen this person. Who owns Haryana News? Mr Kanda.

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