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Posted/Updated Thursday, May 03 12:41:25, 2012

Does the reading public have the same reaction to Meenakshi Natarajan's bill on media regulation as members of the media? The letters to the editor carried by the Hindu are illuminating. Of several letters published on May 3 none thought the bill was as outrageous as TV and print coverage of it is making it out to be. On the contrary letter writers thought the media needed reining in. 

 

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The media have widely reported the conviction of Babu Bokhariya, a Gujarat minister for illegal mining but played down similar sentence for two others, a former Congress MP, Bharat Odedara, as well as an alleged gangster. Bokhariya is in the headline and the intro but the others are relegated to the end. Is a Congress politician's conviction less newsy?

 

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