Sniffing a conspiracy

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/01/2018

Times Now was indignant at the left-liberal conspiracy against the Modi government which is what the four judges' press conference on Jan 12 morning represented in their view. The channel kept showing Indira Jaisingh giving her views, and D Raja arriving at Justice Chelameswar's house, to prove its point. "Both from the same side of the spectrum", Navika Kumar declared darkly. Her colleague Rahul Shivshankar wondered at senior journalists standing behind the judges, and what that meant, as the camera showed Shekhar Gupta and others. As far as we could see, it meant that were listening and taking notes.

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