[Reader-list] Shouldn¹t Vir, Barkha step down now?

[Pheeta Ram]

Eerybody in the media knew about Barkha and Vir; what we didn't know about
was that the two of them together would get involved in such a scam like
this where even their Congress masters wouldn't be able to save their skin!

Commonwealth games has taught me one thing: Kutta kutte ka vairi! That is,
dog eats dog! We got to
 know about all the rot that had set in the Organising Committee (OC) only
when one dog began fighting over his share of flesh with the other dog. Here
too, the bourgeoisie seem to be fighting the bourgeoisie, which is certainly
not a bad thing; its just hastening things; we need to know that. When India
shall be a Maoist state we shall make all these people work in the fields
before writing even one word on the paper. I am earnestly looking forward to
it.

This bourgeoisie class needs to be taught a severe lesson which it should
find hard to forget!

Pheeta Ram


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Samvit <samvitr at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is such excellent stuff. It seems like a piece from a soap opera
> with all the masala of intrigue, deceit, backstabbers, etc. The dark
> and dirty side of the Congress and Barkha is so openly portrayed.
> Barkha who has/had this image of "holier than thou!!" comes out like a
> broker in the audio tapes. And there are people who call
> Karunanidhi..."us, buddhe ko bo do!!!" <tell that that old man(sic!)>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:04 PM, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Check out the Outlook website for more dirt.  Here's just one of the
> > sickening audios.
> >
> >
> http://business.outlookindia.com/view.aspx?vname=16-CongApniDukan20090522-17
> > 0040.wav
> >
> >
> > On 19/11/10 4:10 PM, "Aditya Raj Kaul" <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>    Shouldn¹t Vir, Barkha step down now?
> > GN Bureau | November 19 2010
> >
> > Nira
> >> Radia, a PR professional ­ or to put it plainly, a lobbyist ­ dictated
> > what
> >> goes into senior editor Vir Sanghvi¹s column and what NDTV anchor
> > Barkha Dutt
> >> should tell the Congress ahead of cabinet formation, going by
> > the telephonic
> >> conversations authorities tapped (read the
> >> transcripts
> > here<http://www.openthemagazine.com/>or read a report
> > here
> >> <http://epaper.mailtoday.in/epaperhome.aspx?issue=19112010>).
> >
> > There¹s much
> >> more here than merely consulting an expert before writing a
> > column or
> >> anchoring a story. Veteran and iconic journalists purportedly took
> > brief from
> >> a corporate lobbyist and purportedly coordinated the backdoor
> > wheeling-dealing
> >> of a cabinet formation on behalf of business tycoons, if
> > these tapes are
> >> authentic. While we are in no position to endorse the
> > content, wouldn¹t these
> >> opinion-makers have asked a politician to resign
> > pending an inquiry?
> >
> > The
> >> tapes reveal the ugly side of two of our venerable four estates.
> >
> > As for the
> >> media, a veteran editor who plays a role in helping millions of
> > readers form
> >> opinion (we are being charitable here), stands compromised.
> > This is only an
> >> extension of the business of paid news (read our analysis
> > and the Press
> >> Council¹s unpublicised
> >> report
> > here<http://governancenow.com/news/regular-story/paid-news-press-counci
> >> ls-sham-report-hide-indian-medias-shame%29>.
> > While the other three estates
> >> have a degree of public accountability,
> > the
> > fourth estate goes scot free. A
> >> voter can question an MP once in five years,
> > but as a reader she has no way to
> >> question the editor.
> >
> > As for the polity, the tapes raise the spectre of
> >> Œcorporate democracy¹, for
> > the corporates, by the corporates and of the
> >> corporates. To stem this trend,
> > as a small step, shouldn¹t the guardians of
> >> the public interest ­ Hindustan
> > Times and NDTV in this case ­ ask Sanghvi and
> >> Dutt to step down and face
> > inquiry?
> >
> >   --
> > Aditya Raj Kaul
> >
> > India Editor
> > The
> >> Indian, Australia
> >
> > Web:
> >> http://activistsdiary.blogspot.com/
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