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Well-oiled breaking news
The
ruling party in Karnataka allegedly pays journalists to the tune of
nearly half-a-crore rupees every week and the process is looked after by
an eight-member committee with great precision
by Venugopalan & Harishchandra Bhat
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do you understand by yellow journalism? You got it all wrong if you are
in Karnataka and in the company of journalists. Here ‘yellow
journalists’ mean two categories of scribes: those who refuse to receive
and those who are not offered ‘gratification’ by the ruling party of
the day! To make you more curious, this gratification amount for
individuals varies from Rs 7,00,000 per week to Rs 15,000.
Karnataka,
surely you know, is a leading state in India. So, it is quite natural
that even in the age of Nira Radia leaked tapes, the establishment in
Bengaluru has not allowed its scale of gratification to turn
insignificant by allegedly distributing every week, through an
eight-member committee of the ruling party, one crore, forty-three lakh,
seventy thousand rupees.
Poor
newsmen of Bhopal! They themselves became news by not paying rent to
the tune of Rs 18 crore for the government bungalows occupied by them.
Bengaluru-based mediapersons have several houses and sites allotted to
them in G category....readmore
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