Swamy’s gaffe

IN Media Watch Briefs | 09/09/2016

This is just sort of thing Twitter loves. A self goal by Subramaniam Swamy even as he was trying to make a point about the UPA's media cronyism. He tweeted a link to a story published in the website Jan Satyagrah, titled, ‘Journalists who became most frequent media delegates during prime minister’s official foreign visits under UPA regime.’ The problem is  NDTV and CNN-IBN figured prominently in the allegedly favoured list, with Swamy's daughter Suhasini Haidar featured in one of the photographs. The BJP leader backtracked with another tweet which said he had just retweeted "media cronies" but his daughter was "nobody's crony."