The Wire's Devesh Kumar, Ayushman Kaul and Siddharth Varadarajan had spoken to their readers and answered their questions on 'Tek Fog', a super secret app they 'investigated which does not exist.
The Wire's 'apology' is more of an exercise of getting patted on back for 'owning up' on lapses instead of apologising to those it falsely accused and targeted over fabricated evidence.
OpIndia digs in to the random website from Nigeria, that talks and promotes Muslims and Islam, which gave Global Muslim of the year award to financial fraud accused Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub.
Most of those who are calling The Wire out today will likely side with them tomorrow on ideological narrative building, forgetting The Wire's history of shoddy reporting. That is 'liberal' privilege.
O'Brien would rather put his bets on trash published by dubious platforms with questionable credibility and create noise in the Parliament so that the cries of people back home in West Bengal are stifled.