Ashok Panvalkar, editor of the Maharashtra Times put a post on his Facebook page about an advertising innovation in his paper on May 25, called French Windows. The innovation appears in their Mumbai and Nashik editions and  the picture he posted boasts of creating history. With this ad. The Times Group proprietors would certainly approve.

A reader asks: "Newspapers and television are fussing about Gurunath Meiyappan being the son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Shouldn't the fact of his being a Principal (CEO) of Chennai Superkings, owned by Srinivasan, be more relevant to the case being investigated? Here the status of a son-in-law is relevant but becomes secondary."

Punjab Kesari on Thursday splashed gory pictures of the victims of a mass murder in Ghaziabad. The pictures of the family of seven that was brutally killed in their house are disturbing to say the least. Time for the Press Council and its otherwise vocal head Justice Katju to take notice.

 

The Indian media, print, television and social, seem to think nothing much of the Rs 1,400 cr scam of siphoning off public money in building statues and parks during the Mayavati regime, uncovered by the Lok Ayukt, Uttar Pradesh. IPL, with the ball-by-ball coverage of leaked information by police seems to be of far greater consequence. Even in alleged scams, Mayawati is less newsworthy than cricket players, Bollywood stars and bookies. How so?