CHIDAMBARAM SHUTS BARKHA DUTT FOR SPECUALTING AND NOT READING HOME MINISTER’S PRESS RELEASE CAREFULLY… (19th Jan 2010, 1245 Hrs)

CHIDAMBARAM SHUTS BARKHA DUTT FOR SPECUALTING AND NOT READING HOME MINISTER’S PRESS RELEASE CAREFULLY… (19th Jan 2010, 1245 Hrs)

The Fourth Pillar (the Media) has created so much chaos in the society with 95 per cent speculated news 24 x 7 x 365 days that NEWS has lost all its credibility in today’s modern world. National Editors of various news channels think and act as the God to nail every subject they are interviewing in their respective shows, unless of course, it’s a PAID INTERVIEW.

What is more heartening and amazing is that when the media is attacked, the respective professionals act as if they have been targeted for showing the truth to the whole world and act as cry babies… yes, it is true that they (media professionals) don’t like to be criticized for all the speculations they create in their imaginative brains without using their simple Common Sense in reporting the truth.

Yesterday night, Barkha Dutt (NDTV) was interviewing Home Minister Chidambaram over phone on the speculation that he was seeking to belittle the post of NSA (National Security Adviser) and intends to take on the role of being the Country’s Internal Security Czar as outgoing NSA M K Narayanan was reported to have objected to his proposal. Barkha Dutt speculated Home Minister’s Press Release by mentioning NSA in her question to Chidambaram. It was amazing to see Chidambaram losing his cool to admonish Barkha Dutt on national telecast saying – ‘First you should read the Press Release carefully because nowhere I had mentioned about NSA. So please don’t speculate what has not been written in my Press Release.’ – Barkha was visibly very upset for being insulted by the Home Minister, who was very angry on the issue. Literally, all those who watched the said telecast, must have seen how she felt humiliated at Chidambaram’s hands (whom she has given maximum coverage to build a brand called ‘Chidambaram – The Home Minister’ in all her shows since the past one year) and had to shut up by changing the subject to the next speaker.

This incident also showed how an experienced editor of a channel can twist facts in front of the nation while interviewing senior leaders to speculate the serious issue of nation’s security… so one can imagine what all goes on when live interviews are not done and news are just flashed as SPECULATION! Hope Barkha Dutt will henceforth read all the Press Release more carefully so that she can speculate to avenge her insult at Chidambaram’s hands!

Kudos to Chidambaram, for once, for shutting Barkha Dutt’s trap so that she doesn’t speculate things that has not been mentioned in Home Minister’s Press Release!