Turdesai is not content with smoking Mountain Weed alone. He feeds it to his staff as well by making them write an “explanation” for why his channel didn’t telecast the damaging tapes. From trying to assuage his non-existent conscience to enforcing his guilt upon his staff, Turdesai sinks to newer and newer lows. Owe it to panic over the BJP’s boycott of CNN-IBN or to a late realization of his blunder, he CNN-IBN offers justification an explanation about the decision to not telecast the sting operation tapes. The “explanation” is a study in contradiction.
The title reads Why CNN-IBN did not telecast trust vote sting followed by the opening line, In the last week, there has been speculation over an alleged ‘sting’ operation conducted by CNN-IBN…
From trust vote sting to alleged ’sting’ operation. Note the quotes around sting. The piece reads like a CNN-IBN Policy and Procedure Manual on Self-righteous Reporting. BarbarIndians has a pithy take on it.
Since when does the media wait for a story to “complete”? [.] The story also goes on to quote Harish Salve at length. Salve adds little value except to agree with CNN-IBN not airing the tape, while simultaneously not providing any convincing legal reason for not doing so.
What gives Turdesai’s game away are these interesting nuggets.
1. As it transpired, even before we could complete the process of investigation, three BJP MPs made allegations in parliament of having been bribed and displayed cash in the House.
The sting operation was precisely meant to capture the said bribery. What then, needed to be “completed?”
2. In the politically surcharged circumstances, we felt that the more appropriate step would be to provide the recordings we had made till date to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha as the appropriate constitutional authority.
By this logic, why didn’t Turdesai follow the same hallowed procedure for all sting operations his channel conducted till date?
Turdesai is trying hard to not make his panic public. He should’ve thought a million times before revving up his cameras at the prospect of a juicy story. Indira Gandhi castrated whatever semblance of guts the Indian media allegedly had (Ramnath Goenka is perhaps the only name) at one time. These words have no meaning for this precise reason.
Truth that cannot be partial, inconclusive or sensational, but one that must adhere to exacting standards of fairness and accuracy.
As a parting note, is it amazing that not one media outlet condemned Turdesai’s shameless act?
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“As a parting note, is it amazing that not one media outlet condemned Turdesai’s shameless act?”
hahahahahahahahah!
Because “MSM Mein Sab Nange Hain”.
Do check the following link.
PI.
A convenient forgetfulness
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE720080730213653
Hey, I think that you are mixing up things here. From what I have read on the net, the BJP boycott was the consequence of these asinine whinings of Rajdesai and not vice-versa.
anonymous,
Err.. mixing up, how? My point is simple: Turdesai knows that he has dug himself inside a deep hole. He waited for a couple of days, no doubt spending them consulting lawyers, experts, etc–Salve–on how he can save his ass.
I was referring to this line:
Owe it to panic over the BJP’s boycott of CNN-IBN or to a late realization of his blunder, he CNN-IBN offers justification an explanation about the decision to not telecast the sting operation tapes. The “explanation” is a study in contradiction.
Since BJP’s boycott was the result of Sardesai’s ‘justification’, the ‘justification’ could not have been the outcome of panic due to the boycott. Btw, news channels didn’t have any qualms in telecasting Uma Bharti’s “sting operation”, in which she got rather badly stung, rather than the BJP.
anonymous,
>>Since BJP’s boycott was the result of Sardesai’s ‘justification’,…
I was talking about this justification, the one which is the subject of this blog post. Sardesai’s earlier antics hardly count as “justification.”
I can’t help but be awed by turd’s noble display of ethical conscience. It would have helped so much if the same ethics are applied when it comes to airing tehelka.
BJP calling for a boycott of CNN-IBN.. too late IMHO. I had boycotted Indian news channels quite a while ago, to maintain my sanity, stop my blood from boiling and most importantly, stop wasting my precious time.
In fact, I frequently get forwards with Aaj Tak/ India Tv/ NDTV screen captures as jokes…
This is what you get when you have below-25 scum (who think they are intellectually superior to the guests they invite on their shows) from the worst colleges of India running news channels.
Please visit this link. This clearly exposes CNN IBN’s double standard.
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/where-is-the-proof-well-heres-the-proof/#comments
Moreover, the the writer says
“I am willing to depose before the inquiry committee and ready to face any punishment if found guilty.”