Threats through ads

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/08/2010

The Tamil Nadu Illathu Pillaimar State Association put in ads in Tamil newspapers warning the Tamil magazine Junior Vikatan that a massive agitation would be held in front of its office in Chennai if it failed to apologise for carrying a ‘news’ story in its column titled Mister Kazhugu (Mr Eagle). The story was about the Man Friday of a prominent leader in Madurai being beaten up in Chennai. Dinamalar carried the ad, some other papers declined to. (Express Buzz)

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