What the hell is Vir Sanghvi arguing?
There is a blogging elite on the prowl these days, argues Vir Sanghvi on, well, his blog. They criticize the media and television news channels for running after eyeballs at the cost of serious news.
The answer is obvious. Some of the more opinionated bloggers and tweeters believe that [...]
Competitive intolerance is best challenged by protecting individual rights
The August issue of Pragati features my review of Salil Tripathi’s book: ‘Offense: The Hindu Case‘.
Mr Tripathi’s answer would no doubt be unequivocal: No. But by placing his arguments in religious morality rather than constitutional morality, he leaves room for unwinnable religious arguments. To be fair, [...]
Hurt them where it hurts
While NDTV continues to maintain an enigmatic silence on the Kunte affair, Pragmatic lays out the bigger issue at stake here,
What is the real danger? That ultimately, the nation and its society could end up in a situation where a chosen few, aka the mainstream news media, control the public’s thinking [...]
NDTV
While Barkha Dutt goes hammer and tongs against Mr Kunte’s post, guess where it is featured?
“Appalling journalism,” says Chyetanya Kunte, a Netherlands-based engineer, on his web blog Nov 27.
“In one instance, Barkha Dutt of NDTV asks a husband about his wife who is either stuck or held as a hostage. The poor guy adds in [...]
For those who us who don’t know Chyetanya Kunte personally, it has not been exactly clear if he was threatened with a legal notice or was it merely a friendly settlement,
Well, posting in a Facebook group, Barkha Dutt confirms that Kunte was served with a legal notice on 3rd of January,
NDTV’s conduct should not surprise us.
In an op-ed written over an year ago (unfortunately, due to site changes, it is inaccessible on Hindustan Times), Barkha Dutt, the managing editor of NDTV, had vented against anonymous bloggers who espouse popular opinion which are ”often bigoted, blasphemous and banal.”
It is an interesting choice of words–Dutt covers the [...]
