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IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/08/2015

The public broadcaster should not carry news which criticises the government? Even when it is by a state chief minister?  When did that become the norm?  ET reports that officials of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting pulled up the director general of All India Radio for carrying a report on the Editors' Guild criticism of the government's show cause notice to three TV channels on the Yakub Memon coverage. Apparently AIR has also been ticked off in the recent past for airing criticism by Manipur CM Ibobo Singh, and  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.