Double standards

IN Opinion | 21/11/2013

Alleged sexual harasment by a retired supreme court justice is news. Snooping on a woman by at the behest of state government ministers is news. But repeat sexual harassment (admitted to) of a staffer by the magazine's editor is not news. For either The Hindu, or The Times of India. It is, according to the managing editor of the magazine, "an internal matter." The Hindustan Times had in the middle of page 8. Business Standard had a brief on page 12. Why these double standards? And is the Editors’ Guild going to be heard from on this issue?

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