The PM’s pow wow

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/06/2011

The PM’s media advisor seems to ensure that each time there is a press interaction the manner of choosing people for the briefing makes more news than anything the PM says. Last time he left out the I and B minister, this time he did the same but invited the National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon. He also left out a lot of big shot print editors, surely making no friends for the PM in the process. To top it all the PM opened the session with remarks effectively blaming the media for the current atmosphere in the country: “ the role of the media today in many cases has become that of the accuser, the prosecutor and the judge.”

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