There are, indeed, no free lunches in the US! The television journalists who are part of the prime minister’s media delegation to the G20 Pittsburgh Summit are learning this the hard way.

From audio-video feeds to providing a good backdrop for the piece to cameras, each and every bit of services rendered to journalists is being charged. In fact such is the tariff for hosting.

Everything costs money at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. In fact, a piece to camera from the venue with the Indian Express could set an organisation back by as much as $10,000.