Opinion: What Nidhi Razdan phishing case and Arnab Goswami chats tell us about Indian media today The media has become a marketing juggernaut, vulnerable to manipulation by influential players. Arnab Goswami and Nidhi Razdan. | Arnab Goswami (AFP), Nidhi Razdan (Scholars of LSR/Facebook) Every few weeks it seems, something occurs to remind us of the ailing state of the Indian news media. The revelations about two prominent mediapersons last week was one such occasion. Former NDTV Executive Editor Nidhi Razdan admitted she had been the victim of a phishing attack that had her falsely believe she had been appointed Associate Professor at Harvard. While the injury was to her alone, Razdan’s vulnerability was seen by some people as arising from a culture of entitlement surrounding prominent journalists.