Upping the stakes

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/12/2011

It is a high stake battle for The Weekend Leader against a media giant, and now the stakes just got higher. The Times of India has issued a second legal notice to TWL, demanding Rs.100 crore as compensation instead of the original demand of Rs. one crore. This comes after an article on TWL which alleged that journalists working for TOI’s Chennai edition conduct themselves as “Malayalees first and journalists next even in the line of duty.” TOI sent a legal notice to TWL demanding an immediate removal of the “defamatory article,” and a compensation of one crore. In the second notice TOI is even more upset—now telling TWL to cough up Rs 100 crore. Sounds familiar? It is the same amount TOI’s sister company Times Now has to pay in damages to Justice Sawant for its mistake of showing a wrong photograph.

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