When a 'non-story' becomes a story!

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/03/2018

The online news site The Wire is having a good laugh at the work that the pro-BJP site OpIndia is doing for it. OpIndia wrote that The Wire was working on a story about the contract entered into by the law firm of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's daughter with Geetanjali Gems, aborted after media reports on the involvement of Mehul Choksi in the Nirav Modi scam. The problem is The Wire had dropped the story!

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