Questioning the journalists' education, at a public function here Sunday, he said: "What is a reporter's salary... How much does a news reader earn? Maybe 25,000 (rupees). They are mostly graduates. They are not great thinkers...intellectuals. They write news how they understand it."

Who said this? Here's a clue: The person is a chief minister who made this statement criticising the media for biased news coverage and alleged that many journalists were doing opposition-sponsored paid news reporting.