Prasar Bharati CEO turns down biased BBCs invite

NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati chief executive Shashi Shekhar Vempati is learnt to have declined an offer to attend an event hosted by BBC because of its “one-sided” reportage of the communal violence in Delhi.
The event, to mark International Womens Day, has been organised to felicitate Indian sportswomen and is the first such award ceremony hosted by it. While Vempati could not be reached for comment, TOI has learnt that he has communicated his decision in writing and said the British boadcasters ground reports were “damningly silent” on “murderous and tarRead More – Source

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