Gone is the time when after a major religious blunder, will not name only Ayodya as many followed, the state says, it didn't acted as it was ignorant of ground situation. Now in the midst of guzzling questions and array of microphones, its difficult to hide behind 'ignorance'. But still the hard fact is some established media channels are again getting cosy as Doordarshan was once. One-on-one interviews, cosy talks, mudslinging politicians being getting their byte, and others such reminds me of a journalism that is 'comfortable' not 'investigative'. Why do Barkha Dutt is shy to ask some hard questions to Suresh kalmadi, the CWG's corruption personified. Why take the answers of this man on face value? If you question about treadmills that were rented for inflated prices, say clearly that "Mr Kalmadi, you are wrong. These are facts with me and you failed as OC Chairperson." And see this, Sagarika Ghosh says 'right' when a separatist shows its overzealous fantasies to break apart the country in a national talk show. Astonishingly, she didn't find anything wrong in Joel Stein's schoolboyish comments without investigation or knowledge about Hinduism.
Thanks that they are not editors, or else we will just get elitist columns written from well furnished study rooms rather from ground zero. Please say a spade a spade journalists.
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