PTI coverage not in national interest, will review ties: Prasar Bharati

AN interview of the Chinese Ambassador to India by news agency Press Trust of India has earned it the ire of the nation’s “autonomous” public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, which called its “recent news coverage” detrimental to “national interest and undermining India’s territorial integrity.”

A letter was sent Saturday, with the subject “news reporting by PTI not in national interest,” written by Samir Kumar, head of Prasar Bharati News Service, and addressed to PTI’s Chief Marketing Officer.

The letter said that “taking into view in totality PTI’s conduct, Prasar Bharati is reviewing the need for continued relationship with PTI and a decision in this regard will be conveyed soon”.