Selective newsworthiness

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/08/2015

BS reports that Left party MPs were not amused at the publicity former Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav garnered on news channels  for his protest highlighting the woes of farmers. They focused on Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and others when he was arrested on August 11. The MPs wondered why the half a dozen such protests they had taken out in the past one year, with thousands converging from across the country to attend them, never merited such coverage. If their protests were mentioned at all  in news bulletins and city pages it was for the traffic snarls they caused!