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Which newspaper do you read? How it could shape your opinions.

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The Robert Wadera  News example Last night every English TV channel carried Arvind Kejriwal's news conference asking how Robert Wadera the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi got so rich so fast. I was expecting to read more about it in this morning's papers. I subscribe to the "Deccan Chronicle" and "The Hindu" . As I sat at the dining table sipping my sugar-free filter coffee and munching on my digestive biscuits, I noticed that while The Hindu thought that the story deserved front page mention, The Deccan Chronicle did not breathe a word about it in their front page. "What's a 300 crore scam in this day of lakhs of crores of scams" , the DC must have thought. "The public don't care about these piddly little scams, and who in Vizag bothers about Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law?" I am yet to compare the Telugu dailies . However the comparison of the front page of the two English papers shed light on how public opinion is shape