Whose footage?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/02/2015

Some channels telecasting PM Modi's Rohini rally said prominently that they were using video footage sourced from the BJP. Others seemed to be doing the same but declared nothing. NDTV had a split screen showing two feeds, NDTV and BJP. The former focused on showing the crowds, but their cameras were laconic, not adding much to the viewer's sense of how big it really was.

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