Suddenly news?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/06/2017

An article published  on The Wire on June 2 suddenly becomes a news item for Times Now on the afternoon of June 5. In it Partha Chatterjee, described as a social scientist and historian, compared the justification advanced for action by Major Gogoi in the human shield incident in Kashmir with the justification advanced by General Dyer for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In a somewhat late reaction Times Now anchors raved and ranted and brought on  General GD Bakshi, a Times Now favourite, described as a historian, to fulminate on the show.