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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:19:00 +0530 Subject: Fwd: : Indian Media in Bed with Politicians!! From: kgovindan.k@gmail.com To:<\/p>\n

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This is the study carried out by me in last 2 weeks. I was helped by my journalist friend who works with Financial Express. It was a time once when I used to enjoy the debates on the news channels with current & blushing issues of my country. But within last 2-3 years what I have seen is the polarization of the ideology of Indian Media. Here I have studied few of the people related with leading media channels, newspapers & magazines.<\/span><\/div>\n
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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hindustan Times \u2013\u00a0Shobhna\u00a0Bhartia, owner and editor-in-chief of Hindustan Times is a Congress MP from\u00a0Rajya\u00a0Sabha.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Vinod Sharma, HT Political Affairs editor, is essentially a Congress spokesman on all TV panel discussions, because once his boss\u2019 term gets over, he will be looking out for her RS seat next year!<\/span><\/div>\n
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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Barkha\u00a0Dutt\u00a0and\u00a0Vir\u00a0Sanghvi, famous Congress stooges (and intermediaries for UPA allies) who were exposed in the\u00a0Radiagate\u00a0scandal, and are Congress spokespersons in their capacities as electronic media personalities, are the ones who write opinion and columns most frequently (once every week) on the editorial pages of HT. In return,\u00a0Barkha\u00a0and\u00a0Sanghvi\u00a0are rewarded with\u00a0PadmaShrees\u00a0and other compensation by the Nehru dynasty or Congress party.<\/span><\/div>\n
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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0NDTV\u2019s promoters are\u00a0Prannoy\u00a0Roy and\u00a0Radhika\u00a0Roy.\u00a0Radhika\u2019s\u00a0sisterBrinda\u00a0Karat is a famous CPM leader (well known for anti-Baba\u00a0Ramdevviews) and\u00a0Brinda\u2019s\u00a0husband Prakash Karat is the CPM, General Secretary (well known for preferring Congress over BJP). And\u00a0Prannoy\u00a0Roy\u2019s first cousin is the famous far-leftist pro-Maoist-Naxalite\u00a0pro-Kashmiri-terrorists<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0NDTV\u2019s Sonia Singh is the wife of Uttar Pradesh Congress MP, Union minister and ex-princely state ruler, Mr. R. P. N. Singh, who is one of the fastest rising stars in the Congress party. If you remember, Sonia Singh is a very high-profile anchor on NDTV whose anti-BJP views are followed by the great Sir\u00a0Digvijay\u00a0Singh!<\/span><\/div>\n
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6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0NDTV\u2019s\u00a0Nidhi\u00a0Razdan\u00a0(high-profile anchor of Left Right Centre) is the current girlfriend of J&K CM Omar Abdullah (after Omar recently divorced his wife of several years and mother of his two children,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Payal).\u00a0Nidhi\u00a0Razdan\u00a0is also famous for her Congress bias.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CNN-IBN :\u00a0Rajdeep\u00a0Sardesai\u2019s\u00a0wife and co-promoter of CNN-IBN,Sagarika\u00a0Ghose, who anchors Face the Nation and is famous journalist of CNN-IBN (well, her hubby is the owner-editor-in-chief after all) are famous Congress<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Bhaskar\u00a0Ghose\u00a0was a famous\u00a0sarkari\u00a0babuand was made the chief of\u00a0Prasar\u00a0Bharati\u00a0(Doordarshan) during\u00a0Indira\u00a0and Rajiv regimes.\u00a0Bhaskar\u00a0Ghose\u00a0was well-known for personal loyalty to the Nehru dynasty, and now his daughter and son-in-law are rewarded with their own channel to do Congress propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or even what about little known News24 Hindi media channel? Owned by ex-journalist and editor Rajiv\u00a0Shukla, famous Congress MP in\u00a0Rajya\u00a0Sabha, Union minister, industrialist, BCCI vice president and IPL chairman.<\/span><\/div>\n
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9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or even what about little known\u00a0Lokmat\u00a0(and IBN\u00a0Lokmat) that is Marathi newspaper (and channel) in Maharashtra? Owner and editors-in-chief are the brothers Vijay\u00a0Darda\u00a0(Congress MP) and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Darda\u00a0(Congress MLA in Maharashtra, and minister in state\u00a0govt).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10.\u00a0\u00a0Vinod Mehta – Outlook editor has been well known to take anti BJP stand. The Congress (in fact just the one single family \u2014 the Nehru dynasty) has been in power for 56 of the last 65 years of independence. This matters a LOT.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Personal relationships have been built, blackmail-worthy secrets have been recorded, monumental wealth has been accumulated all by the one single Nehru dynasty (and its family-business-cum-political-party Congress) that helps it maintain its tight iron grip over not just the entire Indian mainstream media, but also deep into our bureaucracy, our governmental institutions, and even our journalism and mass media, colleges and graduation schools. I have not even scratched the surface of the network of family and personal relationships through which the Nehru dynasty has completely dominated and controlled the entire intellectual, historian and journalist landscape of India. And we haven\u2019t even talked about the monumental wealth or the blackmailing secrets. All because the one single dynasty got to rule over India for 60 years uninterrupted. It matters a LOT. The typical JNU\u00a0Nehruvian\u00a0communist left-libbers ideologues have really perpetrated some kind of stranglehold on India\u2019s journalism, media and intellectual space. Almost all BJP or even neutral journalists have been slowly thrown out of their jobs due to pressure from the Congress and the Nehru family.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Even the great venerable\u00a0Ramnath\u00a0Goenka, frustrated and broken by repeated I-T raids and ED investigations ultimately had to fire\u00a0Arun\u00a0Shourie\u00a0twice from the Indian Express, which was once the best Indian newspaper in the 1970s and 80s. That was the team \u2014\u00a0Goenka\u00a0the owner,\u00a0Shourie\u00a0the editor, and S.Gurumurthy\u00a0the fearless journalist, that brought political heavyweights likeIndira\u00a0Gandhi down on her knees and even took on corporate bulls likeDhirubhai\u00a0Ambani.(Ramnath\u00a0Goenka\u00a0inspired the\u00a0Mithun\u00a0Chakrabortycharacter and S.\u00a0Gurumurthy\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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inspired the R.\u00a0Madhavan\u00a0character in the\u00a0Ambanibiopic \u201cGuru\u201d.) But very few journalists with neutral ideology are left in India\u2019s media space today, that too in minor publications like The Pioneer. The Congress party essentially owns and controls every single mainstream media house in India, including Hindustan Times, The Times of India, NDTV, CNN-IBN, The Hindu,\u00a0Tehelka, Outlook,\u00a0Aajtak, News24,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amar\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ujala\u00a0etc,.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rahul Karale<\/div>\n
Krishna\u00a0Pophale<\/span><\/div>\n
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