We are not surprised

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/04/2017

A foreign correspondent (Stanley Pignal of the Economist) thinks it's odd that if you get an interview with Ratan Tata you would not ask a single question about the Tata debacle. But the interview is a muted two-column affair on page 1 of ET Panache (April 20) and Indian journalists are not surprised. As one of the comments puts it, the interview would have been given on that pre-condition, and anyway if its in Panache its hardly going to be hard news.

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