BJPâs strategy for Arnab Goswami âWhatsApp scandalâ â keep leaders quiet, focus on Budget
BJP leaders defended Arnab Goswami when he was arrested last year, but his image & relationship with ruling dispensation seems irreparably damaged this time. Text Size:
New Delhi:Â The controversy overÂ
Republic TVÂ Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswamiâs leaked WhatsApp chats has caused some consternation in the BJP, which has now instructed its spokespersons and other leaders not to speak publicly on the issue.
Government and ruling party figures have largely stayed silent on this controversy, compared to how they had openly defended Arnab Goswami after he was arrested by the Mumbai Police last year.
: Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 9:52 PM IST
Republic TV sends legal notice to The Indian Express over report alleging Arnab Goswami bribed ex-BARC CEO
Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami
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In what comes as the latest bizarre development to the alleged TRP scam case, Republic TV has now sent a legal notice to
The Indian Express, claiming the newspaper had alleged in an article that the news channel s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami had bribed Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) s former CEO Partho Dasgupta to manipulate television ratings.
In its notice, Republic TV reportedly claimed that the news report published by
The Indian Express on January 25 had acted as judge, jury, and executioner in breach of journalistic ethics. .
Symbols of the rot
Time journalists called out the corruption unearthed by the TRP scam
Details of the WhatsApp chats between former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Partho Dasgupta and Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami that the Mumbai police have filed along with a 3,400-page supplementary chargesheet in the scam to rig TRPs for manipulation of advertising are symbolic of the rot that is primetime television news. The salacious parts involve rival anchors who are variously called “utter fool”, “ass”, “top-to-bottom fake”, etc. But the more serious bits display the utter absence of integrity, a total contrast between what these individuals actually think and what they peddle as news and opinion that influences the people. In one chat, they are shown to use colourful descriptions about the bad state of the economy and how the late Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is the “biggest failure”. But in an after-primetime show, however, this celebr
Read more about Arnabgate undermines the Modi govt s national security narrative on Business Standard. Goswami s source can be prosecuted under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act for communicating and disclosing secret information, and Goswami for receiving such information and purveying it further
BARC Former CEO Partho Dasgupta s Condition Stable: Mumbai Police Tell HC
The HC was hearing a bail plea filed by Dasgupta.
Bombay High Court Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-25T16:03:18+05:30 BARC Former CEO Partho Dasgupta s Condition Stable: Mumbai Police Tell HC outlookindia.com 2021-01-25T16:04:20+05:30
The Mumbai Police on Monday told the Bombay High Court bench that the condition of BAARC ex CEO Partho Dasgupta is stable and he has been provided necessary medical care in the Taloja jail.
The HC was hearing a bail plea filed by Dasgupta.
Singh also said that all other accused persons in the case were out on bail.