Fellow journalists upset with Arnab Goswami – NDTV’s Ravish Kumar sums up their anger

February 17, 2016, NewsCrunch

Most Indian journalists are upset with the Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, whose hyper-nationalistic rhetoric, they say, is hurting press freedom.

After the controversy of JNU allegedly students shouting  anti-national slogans broke out, AG has been targeting them as ant-nationals. The academics and journalists, who are advocating a nuanced approach, have also come under his attack.

When the journalists went on a protest march in New Delhi to protest the attacks on them, he was the only known face who was missing.

In an interview with Newslaundry’s Madhu Trehan NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar sums up why he and his colleagues are upset with Arnab Goswami, though without naming him.

He says anchors, who label others as anti-Indian and are stifling freedom of speech. They are also polarising the audience with their shrill us and them style of debates.

These armchair anchors pick up frivolous issues and ignore the ones that truly affect the common man. 'When was the last time such anchors visited places where people are dying of thirst and hunger?' he asks.

So, what is the solution? People should stop watching debates on TV, says Ravish Kumar.