How Free is India's Media? I "Whether BJP or Congress..." I A Top Journalist Answers I Barkha Dutt
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- With an illustrious career in media spanning over 50 years, veteran Journalist and author Alok Mehta speaks to Barkha Dutt in the 25th Episode of our podcast 'Inside Out'.
Mehta speaks about covering Indian politics, publishing stories that led to death threats- in one case an armed gunman barging in his office looking for him, in another a threat to mow him down by a truck. He also recalls the time when his Times of India printing press was set on fire by RJD supporters after he broke the Lalu Yadav fodder scam story.
From Lalu to Yashwant Sinha, from Vajpayee to Modi, Mehta has seen it all. He says "Media won't die" but also exposes how the RSS, BJP & Congress tried to control not only the media narrative but the media itself over the years.
#India #pressfreedom #BarkhaDutt
Chapters:
00:00 Promo
2:50 How free is Indian Media today?
5:00 Breaking the Lalu Yadav Fodder Scam story
9:42 When RSS ideologue Govindacharya called Vajpayee 'Mukhota'
12:05 Fall of Govindacharya & How Vajpayee responded
14:00 Media gets indirect pressure to withdraw stories
15:43 Not new that Editors are forced out of jobs
20:43 "Aisa kuch mat karo ki Newspaper chhapna band ho jaye"
22:26 When Morarji refused to given even a goodwill message
24:10 Jiske paas paisa hai wo survive karke chal rahe hai
24:44 When I was almost conveyed to resign
27:05 When Yashwant Sinha, then in BJP, got upset over a corruption story
29:43 What has changed for the Indian Media?
36:33 Manmohan Singh & the reporting on '2G Scam'
36:58 Which politician is democratic about media criticism?
44:30 Mehta on Controversial godman Chandraswami
49:49 Mai Rajeev Gandhi ke plane me reporting karne gaya, Laddoo khane nahi
50:22 Alok Mehta on Hindi Media & struggles of Hindi newsrooms
54:46 What makes Alok Mehta optimistic about the future of Indian Media
55:20 Credits
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Finally a good interview… Thanks Barkha Madam
Interview of this kind is vital for media
Barkha, please continue to interview veteran journalists! It is so interesting to hear their lived experiences as a journalist! ❤
Today, it is unfortunate that Lyutenswala media does not write about success stories of India
Madam is tarh ke quality hindi interview ke liye thank you asha karte hai ki age bhi is trah ke hindi content mile🙏🙏🙏
Most absurd argument by Dalaal Media was "Media has to be Anti Establishment".
Why Ms.Barkha has no story about her joy and pride of G20 Success.
Why proud?G20 submit was bound to happen!Next is in Brazil & South Africa!💁
*GOOD EVENING BARKHA JI* 🙏
He is sidelining all the questions
Ask Nira Radia how “FREE” is INDIAN MEDIA
😂 i am still in search of that edition of India today.
Probably a interaction/ interview marred by poor audio recording
What does this interview convey barkha?
Where is the English subtitles? This is India not Bihar.
Could not understand a thing in this interview.
Juxtapose Alok Mehta and Inder Malhotra and you will realise the dwarfness of journalistic statwarts of today's India.
Barkha is so bored , nothing intelligent or interesting to hear or question
Main chahata hu e beiman Buddya patrakar or kuch din Jibit rahe,iss Buddya ki assliyat pata chal jayega
Poda
Rapist from Balatkar Janata Party.
आलोक जी की आधी बातें तो समझ ही नहीं आई,दूसरे वो एक विषय को साफ किये बिना दूसरे विषय पर जम्प कर जाते हैं
Barkha are you free
Pls do debate on following topic if you are free
Article 25 says freedom of conscience ,freedom to practice religion,freedom to profess religion is guuarnteed but restriction of subject to public order and Morality. Of course what is morality and what is conscience is not defined
Now hadeesh of islam is that who ever leaves islam is to be killed,murtad ki saza maut as per haddesh in inslam
So now my question is islamic scripture against freedom of conscience of article 25 as it's not moral to kill someone if he just leaves islam as per thier books
Hence islam should not be allowed to be propogated or allowed to be propogated.
I do not know the answer as of now but need to do research on it.
Madam ye kisko pakad layi aap. Skipping the story of G20 success. Waiting for the story madam.
S.B. and pramod story
"A(u)nti India" 'Burga' dut should be sidelined
so he end govindacharya career ?
YE DALAL AB KI GOVERNMENT
KA.
Its totaly biased and follow authority line.
२ निकम्मे एक दूसरे का इंटरव्यू करके अपने आप को बिजी रख रहे हैं?
क्या क्या से क्या हो गया बेवफा माइनो तेरे प्यार में !😭😭😥
I didnt much understand what he is saying. But respectfully I would say that he do not understand about what media is showing nowadays. As far as I know journalist work is to ask question to the government not always appreciating the government. Government spend so much on promoting there schemes and appreciating themselves. Why journalist need to do the same. Also, many corporates have taken over media channels and newspapers. Thats why we are not seeing news of common people in the country. If you want to promote government then STOP saying that you are journalist. I know previously media might not be free but nowadays its too much. Everytime why we look back history when someone criticize, same goes to current government and media. Do we really want to be same like before or rather we need to correct our mistakes which we have done before?
India voted for current government to work on the mistakes that previous government did rather than pointing out everytime what previous government did. Please grow up.
We can remove our over critical attitude because in such a huge country with so many languages lifestyles and political beliefs and even problems inherited from past , any government can rule stably only if it takes things in its stride . Compromise, adapting is vital for survival. Look we are rising. Accept.
@@Sadhana3662 I simply dont understand what critical is about communal violence going on in this country.....I think you have accepted the current setup going on in this country....Its your wish not mine.....If something wrong in going on in this country, myself as citizen is duty to speak up.....not only to give vote to the goovernment......
LOL. Congress government jailed all editors and censored all news papers. and this alleged journo got padma award by same congress government. So stop preaching.
Time waste!
I dont understand this. Even in Vir Sanghvi interview, Barkha kept emphasizing that media was not free earlier too. Why this unseemly urge to prove that Modi alone is not the offender? Isn't this a form of whataboutism too, Barkha?
bura lga kya asliyat sunkar?
N ram, Karan Thapar, vinod dua, Ravish kumar...all of them were pet dogs of UPA.
Burka Dutt has the audacity to ask this question after Radia-Gate 😄😄
Barkha is still politicking and clearly biased
This man's narrations and anecdotes are very difficult to understand.
Yes