'Me first' battle breaksout over who broke porngate scandal

February 09, 2012 14:26

Update on yesterday's so-called porngate scandal.

A battle royale has broken out between the two leading Kannada news channels over who broke the porn video scandal, involving ministers in the BJP's 'gateway to the south', Karnataka, reports churumuri.com.

Market leader TV9 ran a news item on its 9 pm primetime news show on Wednesday, complete with a visual of its head honcho,Mahendra Mishra.

The news item contained an interview with its cameraman in the legislature who caught the ministers prying into their cellphones, and who then sent off an SMS to the reporter, Laxman Hoogar.

Not to be outdone, the Rajeev Chandrasekhar owned Suvarna News claimed it was the first with the story.

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