Oops! Wrong guy!

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/06/2016

Giving awards to politicians  is a bit dicey if you do not want to displease the ruling big daddies. It leads to awkward situations if the jury picks the wrong person. Last year CNN News18 (then known as CNN IBN) gave a politician of the year award to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, as part of its Indian of the Year awards in different fields. This year when the awards for 2015 came around, voila! No politician of the year award. The jury picked Bihar CM Nitish Kumar unfortunately. Wrong guy, so drop the award. In our quest to confirm this we also discovered that not all the eminences listed as part of the jury actually participated in  the jury selection.