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"CHRISLAMIC" medias selective coverage of Riots

Remained Uncovered Most of us wake up to the news of nine people killed in riots in Uttar Pradesh. One of those killed was a journalist from  IBN7 . From the past few hours, only one question has been nagging me – would the media have covered this riot if the  IBN7  journalist was not killed? You might wonder, what is the basis of this doubt? Let’s take a look at some of the tweets from media celebrities since last night. First  off-the-block is this tweet from Editor-in-Chief of  IBN  networks, Rajdeep Sardesai. Not to be left far behind , editor of  IBN7 ,  Ashutosh shared his two piece  gyan  through a series of tweets Not to be left behind,  Group Editor of NDTV says this: Did you know that riots were happening in UP “for last few months”? Rajdeep Sardesai is talking about Lucknow, Faizabad, Bairelly – does any of you know what even happened there? Ashutosh also enlightens us that “small riots are engineered all over UP” – here’s an open challenge to