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Was NDTV unaware that had run excerpts from the blog item that their lawyers were suing Cheytanya Kunte for? And do the “tech” chaps who run have no idea that everything, including everything they remove, is cached by Big Brother at Mountain View? Secondly, how far is NDTV, which has a “convergence” outfit, from achieving convergence?
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Has the channel issued the Admiral a notice, like it did to Kunte? Has he clarified/ retracted his comments/ apologised? Why is his response not public? If Dutt and NDTV wanted to protect their fair name, etc, from the slander, what are they proposing to do about Admiral Sureesh Mehta, who repeated the libellous charge of the channel and the correspondent “endangering lives” in Kargil by asking a military officer to trigger the Bofors gun for their cameras, at a media conference? The bomb-Shell™ (pun intended) had boomerang written all over it, and in more ways than one. If there is anything that l’affaire Barkha Dutt versus Cheytanya Kunte holds a mirror to-besides media hypocrisy, thin skins, forked tongues, and such like-it is: a) the quality of legal advice media behemoths receive and act upon, and b) the mainstream media’s bottomless ignorance of the wired world and how it works.Įven the spitting-image puppets that NDTV hauls out of the cupboard a few times a day to generate a laugh would have counselled Prannoy Roy & Co (for free) against embarking on the petty path of picking on a hapless blogger sitting in The Netherlands.