Shoot from the hip

IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/04/2013

Should the Press Council not do its checks before it censures a newspaper for paid news? Or is that in keeping with Chairman Katyju's shoot-from-the-hip style? Now the PCI has rescinded its original censure after taking into consideration the facts presented by the paper. Apparently the paper's reply was "not taken on record" earlier .(The Hindu)  The matter relates to news reports published in the run up to the Bihar assembly elections of 2010.