
It could have been just another day in the unexamined life of the breaking news ticker.
But hours after the Tribune reported the news about the clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh, India Today ran a show announcing that it was “the channel that broke the story”. And Tribune special correspondent Ajay Banerjee called out the network’s “tall claim” on Twitter, tagging the channel and its news director Rahul Kanwal.