Dear Arnab Goswami, What You Did Wasn’t Journalism

2019-08-19 42

Shock across newsrooms in India. Arnab Goswami resigns. Twitter, social media abuzz. Why? Where to?
Will Arnab’s guns fall silent? No more noise at 9 pm? I thought, let’s watch what may be his last prime time show for a while. Maybe he’d drop a hint about where his future lay.
And, of course, Arnab Goswami totally did his thing. And it wasn't journalism.

With that signature Ekta Kapoor-inspired fire raging at the bottom of his screen, Arnab laid out his first discussion point – Was it wrong to kill the eight SIMI militants in an encounter? For a few seconds I felt, okay, going by his own standards, calling them ‘militants’ and not ‘terrorists’ is decent. He also called them 'terror suspects’ for a bit. Correct. But it went downhill from there.

Video: The Quint
Music: Big Bang Fuzz