The Hindu also had a report on page 11, headlined “Cobrapost says paid news widespread”. It does not name any of the media organisations that were stung. Business Standard put out an agency copy on its website. Apart from these, none of the other Big Media organisations found the Cobrapost sting worth covering. Needless to say, major TV news channels gave it no prominence. It is worth noting that in most of these TV channels unauthenticated WhatsApp videos often become a subject for primetime debates. The near silence on the sting and its contents, then, is curious to say the least.