case study of media and democracy in the state hariyana
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Less than two years ago, the man who heads the media conglomerate which controls Zee TV and the DNA newspaper was under pressure, to put it mildly. Subhash Chandra was handling a counter-attack from Haryana’s Congress politician-industrialist Naveen Jindal whom his channels had begun to investigate after he had been implicated in the case of alleged irregularities in coal block allocations. After Zee News and its business counterpart began to do stories on the coal blocks allocated to him, Jindal had a sting operation done on the channel’s editors, and sued the media house for extortion. He was a ruling party member of Parliament. Chandra and his son Punit Goenka who is managing director and CEO of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd were questioned by the police, had to take anticipatory bail, and the two Zee editors named in the case spent some time in judicial custody. Zee News counter-sued Jindal for defamation.
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