How Swami Agnivesh turns table on Barkha
A day back, I tweeted about how Swami Agnivesh is incapable of handling spin masters from politics like Manish Tewari, etc. I take it all back. I just saw this clip from Barkha Dutt's opinion show - The Buck Stops Here. On a question from Barkha grilling him about whether the Bhushans should step down from the panel because of the allegations against them, Swami asked a question in return, indirectly asking if media people like Barkha should have stepped down after the Radia tapes controversy.
(posterous doesn't help me deep link. Please watch from 39m 40s in the clip above)
When the tables turned, Barkha tried to save her face saying that it would depend from case to case. How convenient for media to take a call on that while spending every waking minute judging everybody around them. I especially detest the path Indian electronic media is taking - every media house takes a stand, and all their shows blatantly pushes that agenda on it. It is one thing having such opinions being pushed on debates and talks, and it is a worse thing expression such opinions as headline news as what these channels are doing now.
(via mutiny.in)
