What Your TV Doesn't Show You?
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 27 August 2011, 03:58 IST   |    30 Comments
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Bangalore: Anna rules the web, the electronic media, and the print to a great extent. He leads a massive protest demanding the Parliament to pass his team's Jan Lokpal Bill, the practicality of which is a highly debatable issue. However, the culture of modern electronic journalism hides many a things from the public, seeks for news that makes the headlines and celebrates them with undue hype while ignoring many. The Anna saga was widely covered and many other top stories were hidden from the public eye under the Lokpal shadow. 2G Spectrum Scam
2G Spectrum Scam
Surprisingly Anna Hazare's second freedom struggle broke out at a time the UPA-government seemed to be at a point of collapse, at least on the moral side. Kanimozhi has apparently argued that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram were in the loop during the 2G scam. This was a serious blow to the already shaky government which was hunting for a shelter to hide from the accusations of former Telecom Minister A Raja that PM and Chidambaram were aware of the 2G transactions. "I will get the PM, then Finance Minister P Chidambaram and the present Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal summoned as witnesses to prove there was no loss in 2G allocation," said A Raja.

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