What happened there?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/06/2017

On Tuesday at 8 pm ABP News did the Roy story. They provided both sides of the story, extensively quoting from CBI and NDTV press releases. Madhu Kishwar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Kumar Ketkar, Om Thanvi, Sharad Yadav were interviewed, and the government and Congress point of view also presented along with the Edtiors' Guild press release. Then, the news channel went deeper: who is Prannoy Roy and why is he important? In this segment, the channel began to profile Roy and got as far as his mother was Irish when first the voice over halted and then after a few seconds, the anchor returned to say they would move onto Viral Sach after a commercial break. The Roy profile was left hanging.

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