![]() ![]() The transcripts suggest that journalists Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt also lobbied for Raja with the Congress party. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and Ranjan Bhattacharya, the foster son-in-law of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, shows how she successfully lobbied for several cabinet berths. Her interface with discredited (now former) telecom minister A. Outlook prefaces its tape transcripts with the comments, "Radia's conversations show how even cabinet berths can be decided by this select oligarchy. J ust as politicians bail each other out in scam-time, it appears journalists do the same. Do whatever, but how can you pretend to your audience - many of whom anyway have been listening to the tapes from the Open and Outlook and YouTube websites - that they never happened? I mean, how daft is that?Īnd even if those tapes, reportedly recorded by the IT department, were not authentic, the very fact that the entire broadcast media (bitter rivals for TRPs and ad revenues on normal days) ganged up to black it out shows that they have something to hide. The question that the Barkha Dutts and the Rajdeep Sardesais of the world have to answer is: How can you purport to be a news channel and ignore completely the biggest news break of the day for two days running (Nov 18 and 19)? Sure, say that those tapes are rubbish. Indeed, the main source of information on this scandal has been online media, such as, various bloggers, and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and of course, the websites of Outlook and Open magazines. #Nira radia barkha dutt tv#In fact, if all those conversations were merely in the course of 'journalistic duty', why this strange black-out?īut what is really scary is that, despite living in a 'democracy' that boasts of a 'free press', if you were dependant only on TV and the big newspapers for the biggest news developments of the day, you would never have known about the Niira Radia tapes, and the murky role of mediapersons as political power brokers. What they were doing, is acting as liaison officers for political parties and business houses. But it is quite clear from the tapes that they were by no means practising journalism in their conversations with Radia. It is quite possible that Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi never lobbied for Raja or for anyone else. launched a cover up of the news from the public in order to protect their own." However our very own prime time television news channels NDTV, CNN-IBN, TimesNow, Headlines Today etc. ![]() Some print media outlets, such as Mail Today, and foreign media giants carried these revelations. These tapes show the corruption nexus between top journalists such as Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai, Prabhu Chawla and Vir Sanghvi and political parties and corporate lobbyists. The website, has this to say about this phenomenon, "The self anointed flag bearers of the third pillar were caught red handed as the Nira Radia tapes were leaked online by Open and Outlook Magazine. ![]() The tapes are released telephonic conversations between Nira Radia, and politicians, corporates and industrialists, officials, bureaucrats, aides and journalists that were taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008–09.The tapes led to government and public accusation that these calls evidence the planning of the 2G spectrum scam.The complete blackout of the Niira Radia tapes by the entire broadcast media and most of the major English newspapers paints a truer picture of corruption in the country than the talk shows in the various news channels and the breast-beating in all the newspapers about the 2G, CWG, Adarsh, and other scams. Nira Radia runs a public relations firm named Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, and also operates through subsidiaries such as Neucom, Noesis Strategic Consulting Services and Vitcom Consulting, whose clients, among others, include Ratan Tata’s Tata Group,Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Prannoy Roy’s NDTV.īecause of her important role in the planning of the 2G spectrum allocation scam ![]()
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