DNA executive editor R Jagannathan wrote a column on Sunday on corruption in IPL and other fields.It devoted two paragraphs to TOI. "The preference for monopoly is widespread. We know about IPL’s policy of exclusion. In the media business, The Times of India follows the same policy. To stifle competition, when DNA entered the field, it got into market-share agreements and private treaties with advertisers to ensure that DNA suffers commercially.Advertisers who agreed to exclude DNA were given sweetheart deals ??" exactly as Modi tried to do at IPL by excluding non-favoured bidders. It is another matter that DNA had no intention of obliging The Times, but that doesn’t mean the latter did not try."