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Tanishka Sodhi

Republic TV vs Times Now: Who is right about ED’s TRP scam chargesheet?

Republic TV spent much of Thursday’s airtime on one “big story”: the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet in the TRP scam. The TV news channel stressed the point, repeatedly, that the central agency had issued a clean chit to Republic TV and found its rival Times Now guilty instead.

It wasn’t long before Times Now was claiming that, actually, they had received a clean chit. From BARC in 2017. Times Now told its viewers that “it must be remembered” the Mumbai police were still investigating Republic TV and, that being the case, questioned why the ED was investigating the matter at all.

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