Four News items of your choice and your profile costs only between Rs 5 to 20 lakh depending on the page of our newspaper.If you are rich enough we will publish for you a special supplement about your achievements for only Rs 1.5 crore.”
Charakan describes the rates for sale of newspaper columns to affordable candidates in the recently held Maharashtra Assembly elections. It seems that newspapers are not just about news !
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This is not news. The “cover culture” has been introduced in Tamilnadu long long back. It has been nurtured to an art here. When our ‘leading’ national daily sells its soul to China, there is nothing wrong in others to sell only “space” to buyers.