Did you know one plus one can make zero? You didn't, you say? OK, take these two gospel truths: i) The Northeast does not quite make news in the Indian mainstream media ii) Media owners are loathe to disseminate news items about journalists through their outlets. Now take an incident which has these two incontrovertible truths as the background: the offices of many newspapers in Manipur and the state's only television channel were shut down on March 21 after threats to four journalists from an Islamist militant outfit. No points for guessing, even if you are just Paanchvi Paas, that the coverage of this incident in the our country's venerable mainstream media was a mere zero. The news did trickle out from this landlocked state in the form of an Asia News International (ANI) creed. That was all. No one seems to have carried it. No media coverage.