So the defence journo @sneheshphilip wrote this piece in @ShekharGupta run @ThePrintIndia about @SecDef presser. If you read the piece, you will feel as if only issue that was discussed by Secy was on Human Rights with sideline comment abt Indo China standoff-typical media shit!
https://twitter.com/dgupta_moushumi/status/1373271861165887496
Defence and strategic affairs journalist at @ThePrintIndia - Sh @sneheshphilip wrote a piece -won’t quote link to give them free eyeballs. After reading that piece, you will feel as if US came with a msg following @SenatorMenendez ‘s letter & delivered it -however reality is diff 
The organisers of @secdef s presser made it clear at the start that it will last for 20 mins and it started with first Qn thrown to Jim- journalist who was part of @SecDef s entourage and was travelling with him..benefit of hindsight helps me imagine the face of SP/VS at first Qn
Expectedly & more so after what happd at Alaska in d meeting b/w @SecBlinken & his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi (quoted tweet), Jim began @SecDef s presser by asking Qn on Quad/ Asean & how he foresee it materialising & operationalising- no mention in @sneheshphilips report!
https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1373111286691598340
What @SecDef replied to opening Qn is there for everyone to see. But what is bizarre here is that someone who calls himself a def journo & makes round of every strategic ministry & institution in Del - @sneheshphilip -didn’t find this ans worth reporting- see what he reported
3rd Qn of the presser went to @VishnuNDTV ; although his name was inaudible, yet the man was so charged up following @SenatorMenendez ‘s letter that expectedly so, he made it a centre piece. Ab agenda to chalana hai na.... I have already detailed this here
https://twitter.com/alok_bhatt/status/1373459393425993728?s=21
As presser in which @SecDef answered 14 Qns in total - of which 12 were abt issues like Quad, ASEAN, China, Afg, S400; only two of them were on matters not relating to strategic cooperation and def- one by @VishnuNDTV (thread below) & other by Sylvie!
https://twitter.com/alok_bhatt/status/1373459393425993728
If u ask me wt is agenda journalism/I will ans as below.
Imagine going to a presser of US @SecDef - where out of 14 Qns, u get to ask twice as Secy asks for clarification b4 answering (Pic 1 & 2);then u write a piece of 412 words & only 74 are dedicated to own Qn @sneheshphilip
Imagine going to a presser of US @SecDef - where out of 14 Qns, u get to ask twice as Secy asks for clarification b4 answering (Pic 1 & 2);then u write a piece of 412 words & only 74 are dedicated to own Qn @sneheshphilip
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