Date:12/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/12/stories/2008041254931003.htm

Opinion - Letters to the Editor

Greed & arrogance

The editorial “Greed and arrogance” (April 10) was spot on. No sports federation, however strong or rich, can take the media for granted. Ideally, the Indian Premier League ought to have called media representatives for a meeting to put its terms across rather than going about the issue unilaterally. Before the controversy snowballs into a full-scale boycott of the IPL by the media, the league should sort it out.

Suresh Manoharan,

Hyderabad

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The editorial has rightly condemned the greed and arrogance of the IPL, which seems to have lost its balance in the wake of raking in billions of filthy lucre. The Editors Guild has done well to reject the IPL’s revised terms, which are humiliating. The IPL should cast its arrogance and greed away because without media support it can never succeed. It will be doomed if the media clamp a total boycott on the forthcoming Twenty20 matches.

Col C.V. Venugopalan (retd.),

Palakkad