Saturday, March 5, 2011

IE editorial gives good insight on how journalist and media is manipulated

This entry into Media Watch pertains to an excellent editorial by Shekhar Gupta - Constant Congressman it gave us some insight on How Arjun Singh and congress by extension corrupted journalists by doling out free houses etc

Even though the topic was about Arjun Singh and how close he was to Rajiv Gandhi. It gave good insight on how he manipulated journalists, how he “improved living standards of journalists” while he was CM by giving them houses. It also spoke of how he gave houses to five senior most journos in Chandigarh when he was governor of Punjab and how the next day newspaper had news favorable to him!

Some of relevant portion of the editorial on how he “handled” journalist are

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Following is how he took care when he was CM of MP

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And When he was governor of Punjab

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Surprisingly when we tried to access the editorial later it was not available online(not sure if its there in print). This is what we get

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It is still available in Google search

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But a fellow twitterati  @asraghunath found a copy of epaper which is below

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This was brought to attention of IE

Can you please fix the link its not working RT @ietweet Constant Congressman http://goo.gl/jaSyY

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