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Sunday, May 30, 2010 (14:17:48) |
| Tags : India, Manmohan Singh |
You can't please all
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| New Delhi, May 30: It was dubbed as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first national press conference since 2004, but while the prime minister earned plaudits for his performance his media adviser got brickbats for his handling of the event and for his exclusion of some of the industry's pundits who promptly made a big issue of it.
And the issue continues to make the rounds of media circles.
With nearly 500 journalists itching to ask questions, there were quite a few left whining at the end of the show. Journalists from three big newspapers were not given a chance to play the inquisitor.
A senior journalist with a leading daily, who did not get to ask a question, even threatened to write a letter to the prime minister, complaining about what he considered motivated exclusion.
Harish Khare, the media adviser, who otherwise leaves it to the spokesperson of the external affairs ministry to conduct the prime minister's conferences during foreign tours, looked perplexed. "I can't make everyone happy," he was heard saying. (IANS) |
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