The Economist does it again

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/02/2012

The Economist has done it again, for the third time within a year: this week's edition carried a map "showing the disputed territories" between India and Pakistan which India objects to. An email to subscribers said that the Indian Customs had seized the copies. There was no word about obscuring the maps and delivering them, for it said "they "would not be able to deliver" the copies.

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