Media Remix

Posted/Updated Thursday, Jun 28 16:09:38, 2012

Was the Sarabjit/Surjeet Singh name mix-up all the media's fault? The Pakistani president's media adviser Farhatullah Babar can be clearly heard in his interviews to Indian TV channels referring to Surjeet Singh as the prisoner to be released, but then a Pakistani news channel referred to the person as Sarabjit--and "that became the name the media ran away with." (The Hindu)


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