Paid news in white

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/12/2012

Before the group has lived down the Naveen Jindal sting for which its chairman and managing director took anticipatory bail, another Zee channel, Z24 finds itself implicated in a paid news report front-paged by the Indian Express. Chhattisgarh's PR department apparently regularly pays news TV channels in the state to highlight the government's achievements. The government says they are sponsored programmes paid for in white.