Journalists are always behind the times.
Will someone do the correction ?
The Election Commission 'differences' sold by 'Indian Express' has come a cropper. It's a sad day for Indian journalism and 'press freedom' too. But those in Sickular ecosystem will still not agree. That's a tragedy.
"When that dynasty (Rahul baba's - despite blogger and crown prince were born in 1970) -- sought to illegally perpetuate it’s rule after Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt electoral practices and her election declared void by the judiciary, the 'Indian Express' group became a veritable war machine against the Emergency," tweeted Mahesh Jethmalani.
Ram Nath Goenka would have hanged his head in shame !!
The 'fall' of Indian journalism has come following a mistaken roadmap - that the BJP and Narendra Modi can do nothing right. This premise misguided jokers of Indian journalism and hence 'Indian Express' is what it is today.
It looks like a mouth-piece of Congress party and the anti-Modi brigade.
Mahesh Jethmalani says: "Times have sadly changed. And circulation has dwindled, as it must when you lose your moral compass. The irrepressible Ramnath Goenka moulded the Indian Express into a bulwark against the autocratic DNA of the Nehru-Gandhi family."
He makes a lot of sense.
Jethmalani also writes lucidly but what he says is true --
"Incomprehensibly the Indian Express since the demise of its inspirational founder - at least insofar as its northern avatar is concerned - has become the handmaiden of the 10 Janpath dynasty and its inconstant allies.
"Never at the forefront of the staggering corruption revelations of the dynasty in its UPA garb - 2G, Coal, Commonwealth to name a few out of a long list - the paper backed the regime.
"Indeed when the UPA tottered in 2012 under the weight of it’s scams, the 'Indian Express' attempted to prop it up with an incredulous front page story that 2 units of the army were marching towards Delhi in an attempted military coup -
(This was Gupta ji of Indian journalism and his so-called efficient team. Chamcha giri makes people shameless and it is reflected when they liberally distribute Gyan)
Wow - the word 'Gyanesh' would haunt the newspaper for ages.
Editors must be shown doors but also provided 'free auto ride' to the Congress office -- some of them may soon end up in Rajya Sabha !!
Jethmalani says the coup story is " ... a whopping falsehood which attempted to shatter the long vaunted reputation of the Indian Army as a disciplined force that confined itself to the barracks unlike it’s rogue Pakistani counterpart."
(fiction writing at its worst)
"Since the ascent to power of the BJP/NDA in 2014, the 'Indian Express' is the forerunner of issues which the dynasty and it’s allies are going to magnify on the eve of elections - Central or State-
or at the commencement of a Parliamentary session or the visit of a high profile foreign dignitary.
"The pages of the newspaper over these years are replete with evidence of this fact.
"While even blind one sided loyalty is consistent with freedom of the press , a false narrative which undermines the nations reputation for institutional integrity is plainly anti-national.
The Express peddled a faux theory in its front page for 3 consecutive days from 23rd to 25th September.
"For those 3 days it insinuated that the CEC Gyaneshwar Kumar steamrolled his two colleagues on the Commission into subverting the SIR process and flouting election rules.
The Commission was depicted as a hopelessly divided house and the Chief as a partisan bully intent upon a partisan election outcome.
The opposition clamour led by a failed clown prince frothing at the mouth over his repeated crushing electoral defeats in desperation bayed for blood calling for the arrest of Gyaneswar Kumar and an investigation into the role of the PM & HM.
"He screamed his scripted slogan of “vote chori, kanoon chori aur sanstha chori“ and branded the entire charade as treason."
(not anything else can be expected from a tutored dynast. Question is tutored by whom ? - Or sheer frustration of a Ma Ka Ladla)
"The rantings of the boorish dynast were demolished at one stroke by a joint statement issued by all 3 members of the EC .... that internal differences during the SIR and electoral list updating process were in the nature of checks and balances to ensure the integrity of the electoral rolls and there was total unanimity in all final decisions regarding SIR.
"In the end, the story is one of another failed assault on our vital institutions based on a fake narrative to salvage the careers of permanent losers whose end is nigh.
"On flimsy evidence, an unholy script is crafted to keep malign political actors afloat without the slightest care for the damage done to India's reputation for fair and free elections. Most of all this kind of false outrage is an insult to the verdict of the Indian electorate and no doubt the perpetrators of this crime against the people will be shown their place in the next election.
"I personally grieve however for what has become of a once great newspaper - the Indian Express.
Its legacy as a champion of truth and real freedom lies in tatters. The late Ramnath Goenka was a crusader for truth and justice.
"It is a travesty that under the watch of the descendants of the titan that Ramnath Ji was - his newspaper should be transformed from the watchdog of our national interest to one dynasty’s poodle."
(Reading this I struggled for a while - what's a Poodle - web says - its a type of dog with thick curly fur that is sometimes cut into a special pattern.)
