While, almost as an afterthought, the spin doctors of the RJD chief were quite late in predictably doubting the authenticity of the tapes, the governing alliance partner Janta Dal (United) didn’t question its veracity despite attributing to it the motive of destabilising the state government. The next day what was clear, though not surprising, is that the major national dailies of the English press tucked the news story in their inside pages – The Hindustan Times ( page 13), The Hindu ( page 10), The Indian Express ( page 7) and The Telegraph ( page 9). The ongoing war of words between the Times group and Arnab Goswami ensured that the market leader, The Times of India didn’t even register the existence of the news story. Is it too much of a coincidence that none of the major English dailies thought it deserved to be on front page, particularly on a day when it wasn’t competing with other major news breaks?