Yesterday while watching We The People on NDTV , i was struck by the sheer stupidity of the program. I am not a torch bearing supporter of CNN-IBN either, but at some level there is more sanity. Even Srinivas Jain can be credited with good decent reporting. In fact he is one of my favourites. But Barkha Dutt has so been used to playing the emotional cards with such appaling regularity that its shocking. Seriously, why would you invite Simi Garewal,Luke kenny,Ratna Pathak Shah to comment on Mumbai terror attacks? To be fair to Kenny he atleast made sense. Garewal dished out non sense while Ratna Shah shouted a lot and made very little sense.
there was the regular muslim victim who has absolutely become necessary to show on national television. While Barkha Dutt tried to keep him crying as much as possible, across the set another guy was speaking of ‘cleansing’. Clearly, both could have been avoided.Media needs to be commended for their brave reporting but surely a person of Barkha Dutt’s stature can refrain from resorting to cheap gimmicks.And please while we are angry at the Maharashtra CM for taking along RGV, its time to ponder why do we need the Bollywood industry to analyse terror attacks on the nation.
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