The Ugly Spat of Journists...Where is The Problem!??
Recently, one famous journalist, Barkha Dutt, took on another very famous jouranlist, Arnab Goswami. While Goswami referred to Barkha Dutt as, "“pseudo-secular and pro-Pakistan”", she shot back calling him, "“cowardly hypocrite". While the spat like these may go on between such top level journalists, it brings us to the question -- what is the duty of media in a country like India and where does it need to draw the line? The stand of NDTV seems to be, at least on paper, that a media house has to be extremely neutral in its reporting. One of their reporters had cited the example of BBC to support this view of theirs. BBC, a top English news channel in UK, calls the British Army as "The British Army" whenever UK is involved in any war. It refrains from using the words like, "Our Armed Forces or Our Army", indicating the neutral stand they maintain. The implication of such philosophy is that a news channel has to be extremely honest in reporti