At a session on paid news at a SAFMA seminar Ashok Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra, recently exposed by the Hindu for getting copious, unaccounted for coverage, declined to answer questions on the issue by saying the matter was subjudice. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad observed at the same venue,"If news is a product who is an editor? He is a brand manager, who is a correspondent, he is a salesman."