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| Barkha Dutt’s Facebook post came in response to Arnab Goswami’s attack on Barkha Dut during News Hour programme (video below) |
July 27, 2016, NewsCrunch
NDTV senior journalist Barkha Dutt wrote a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon coming down heavily on Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami.
Accusing him of seeking to gag the media, she asked if he was a journalist and said she was ashamed to be from same industry as him.
She noted that while accusing a section of media as being pro-Pakistan, Arnab Goswami had been quiet on BJP and PDP alliance and Modi's own outreach to
That made him a chamcha, she said.
Barkha Dutt’s anger was in response to NewsHour programme on Tuesday evening on 17th Kargil anniversary.
Arnab Goswami turned a homage to Kargil war heroes into war-cry against ‘pseudo liberals including a section of journalists,’ as he put it.
These sections have been vilifying army and paramilitary forces operating in hostile circumstances, he noted.
These sections have been vilifying army and paramilitary forces operating in hostile circumstances, he noted.
They had been openly echoing the Pakistani line over the last three weeks seeking to paint Wani as an innocent local boy butchered by security forces.
It was the same group that had backed those who chanted Bharat ki bardadi in JNU and had been drumming up campaign to support azadi, he charged.
Without naming Barkha Dutt, he said some of these pseudo journalists had given away operational details and movements of Indian armed forces when they were taking on terrorists.
Barkha Dutt has faced the charge of compromising with the security of Indian armed forces during the Kargil war with her reporting which revealed the locational details of the troops.
Barkha Dutt has faced the charge of compromising with the security of Indian armed forces during the Kargil war with her reporting which revealed the locational details of the troops.
Arnab Goswami asked viewers to take on these people who compromised Indian our national security.
He also threatened to expose one by one in a ‘thought-out manner’ the pro-Pakistan lobby operating in India .
The NewsHour programme also trended #ProPakDovesSilent on social media.
In her response, Barkha Dutt said she did not give a toss for his opinion whether he took her name directly or indirectly.
She said hoped to be someone whose journalism he loathed.
“…The feeling is so utterly mutual that it would kill me to be on the same side of any issue as you,” Barkha Dutt wrote.