Zee TV to the rescue

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/11/2015

Modi government getting flak? Zee TV will be on permanent trouble shooting duty. On Nov. 4 night it wanted to know why the troubled intellectuals in this country were not shedding tears over the Kashmiri Pandits, and the ghar wapasi they have been denied all these years. It ran a special report on them, and took on Shahrukh Khan as well, collecting soundbites from Salman Khan and his father on why Shahrukh’s anguish was unwarranted. On IndiaTV meanwhile, Rajat Sharma was rerunning the PM's old speeches on communal harmony. Shahrukh Khan was being taken on on this channel too.

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