When former West Bengal governor MK Narayanan walked up to Shekhar Gupta: At a banquet at New Delhis Hyderabad House, Narayanan walked up to me and shoved his finger straight into my eye, asking why my then paper (The Indian Express) was going after Pratibha Patil, then the UPA candidate for president. Even if our stories were correct, he asked, were they necessary and how did we decide what to publish? All the news that is fit to print and so on, I said. You think you are The New York Times and this is America, he said, and how, if dirt on important people was all I wanted to publish, he could give me dirt on anybody. If it was in public interest I would, I said.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:41:14 +0000
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