Its really amazing how Ego can make someone lose it. Barkha Dutt is a pioneer in many ways & a role model for many girls in India. She had started out so well.
But for past 2 years whatever little glimpses I've seen of her, if doesnt doesn't make me laugh it certainly annoys the hell out of me. She has this air of superiority about her that is really Irritating. Her coverage of the Mumbai Terror Attacks were the peak of this. She kept instructing her cameraman/woman to focus there, to shoot that. It was quite a bizzaire kind of TV reporting.
At one point it seemed to me that she even staged a crowd of people in the streets to do a thank you gesture for the leaving Armymen in the busses. (I could be wrong, but thats how it felt)
Seems like lot of people are finally getting fed up of her. Blogger Chyetanya Kunte is one of them. Now Barkha with the help of her NDTV lawyers has gone ahead & made him apologize on republic day. The language of his apology is very professional. Must have been written by NDTV's lawyers. You can read the criticism by Kunte that led to this action in the Google cache of his blog (scroll to the bottom).
If journalists themselves start crushing bloggers, then who will defend our freedom of speech?
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