As I read this piece of news on TOI I really read it twice to make sure I was reading what I was. Since when did reporting an event involve a baseless opinion?

Sure, Pakistan, or its media, *might’ve* played a new trick here, but all said and done, as “responsible” media, you would expect TOI to simply report the blast in Pakistan and report that an Indian was arrested in connection with it, with reports that this was denied by the Indian government as a “fabricated stunt”. You don’t expect the TOI to actually suggest and authenticate the statement of it being a stunt itself. Maybe, just maybe, that should’ve been saved for the opinion pages?

To begin with, the news item has no justification or analysis on why they believe it to be a stunt. Secondly, it quotes “highly placed sources”. Now if everyone is so unanimous in agreement with it being a stunt, why the anonymity?

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