Downplaying Dadri?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/10/2015

The Dainik Jagran must be one of the very few papers in Delhi to not consider the incident at Dadri and its aftermath a continuing page one story. October 2nd onwards it has not figured on page 1 in Jagran.  On Sunday there could have been a good reason for such an editorial judgement: that day's edition was guest edited by Akhilesh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in whose state the lynching happened.

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