Gollum Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 RIP, Congress and Gandhi family will miss him, not the rest of the country.
Sachin=GOD Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 RIP' date=' Congress and Gandhi family will miss him, not the rest of the country.[/quote'] You might have missed the Neera Radia story broken by Outlook. Do check it out. Vinod Mehta was one of the most best, most irreverent editors in India. Also a very underrated writer (his biography 'Lucknow Boy' is fantastic and a must read).
ravishingravi Posted March 8, 2015 Author Posted March 8, 2015 You might have missed the Neera Radia story broken by Outlook. Do check it out. Vinod Mehta was one of the most best, most irreverent editors in India. Also a very underrated writer (his biography 'Lucknow Boy' is fantastic and a must read). Don't want to comment further on deceased.But I think it is very clear that ideologically he was opposed to BJP and Outlook followed that narrative
AmreekanDesi Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 RIP Is australia wearing black armbands cuz of him
Sachin=GOD Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 Don't want to comment further on deceased.But I think it is very clear that ideologically he was opposed to BJP and Outlook followed that narrative Yes he was opposed to BJP but unlike other publications/channels, he never shied away from saying it out loud openly. These days almost every single journalist in India is pro BJP/AAP/Cong but very, very few of them have the guts to openly say that - they all just hide behind a veneer of impartiality. Also, when the Radia tapes were out there, nobody covered them bcoz they included stuff against Tata/Ambani....Outlook broke the story and then covered it extensively (even though Mehta paid a steep price - according to his autobiography, Outlook lost all Ads and access to Tatas, Mehta had to step down as Editor around 2012 and he also had defamation suits filed against him by Tata Group).
amiret Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 RIP . Never understood why people thought he & Outlook were pro-Congress. Outlook and OPEN magazine were 2 publications that uploaded many of the Radia tapes online. They were never lenient on the Govt over the mega-scams (2G,CWG ,coal) , unlike say the Hindustan Times.
Sachin=GOD Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 Vinod Mehta Was The Editor I Never Had Arnab*Goswami* http://m.huffpost.com/in/entry/6825998 Nice tribute from Arnab. Also, this is the first time I've read something written by him - he should write more instead of shouting on tv.
amiret Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 From an interview in 2011 is the idea of objective journalism overrated? " Absolutely. The notion of an objective or independent journalist is a pompous myth. The most opinionated people in India must be editors and journalists. How do you expect that their biases do not reflect in their work? They must reflect. Mine certainly do. You have a matrix of dos and don’ts and you pass your biases through that matrix. But there are many occasions when a journalist must jettison objectivity completely. Every story does not have two sides. There are no two sides to the Gujarat massacre or the 1984 massacre or female foeticide. We are taught we need to balance. You mustn’t balance all the time. Some stories are so grotesque they require no balance. I’m not saying this should be the case all the time, but on certain occasions. You must decide which situation is the most abhorrent to you and then you must forget your objectivity. If you are moved and upset by something, if you think some gross cruelty is being perpetrated, why not call it what it is." What were your thoughts before Outlook published the Radia tapes expose. You talk in the book, of commercial considerations. What did you weigh? " We gave it a great deal of thought. We considered the kind of people we were taking on. I’m not talking of the journalists; they were collateral damage. Kanimozhi, Raja, Ratan Tata, Nira Radia, the Ambani brothers – the lion’s den. But the story was of such compelling public interest. What attracted me was the kind of Bollywood script around the Radia tapes. It was surreal. We all thought Indian democracy was corrupt, but one didn’t imagine it would be going so far and so brazen. " http://www.tehelka.com/it-was-hardest-to-reveal-that-i-have-a-daughter-ive-never-met-i-still-hope-to/
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