Balasaheb Thackery gave the maximum number of posts to journalists in his organisation. This is one of media nuggets that emerged in the pre-cremation analyses of the Shiv Sena chief. Kumar Ketkar, editor of Divya Bhaskar said: "Balasaheb loved the media, loved to have private dialogues with them which were not about the five year plan for the country..media too liked him as he was not boring".