The dogs that did not bark …
The league of 2ndhanders
This is N Ram of The Hindu, triumphantly using what he thought, was the clinching argument. Speaking about journalistic etiquette of Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi on the Niira Radia Tapes.
N.Ram: One thing I know, Karan. This would not be tolerated in The BBC or The New York Times or The Financial Times …
Karan Thapar: … (interrupts) … I will take that as a hint …
N.Ram: … (continues) … Your career would be over, once that happened …
Karan Thapar: I will take that as a hint even though you have not said it upfront that if it would not be tolerated by the The BBC or The Financial Times and I presume you include the Hindu and although you have not named it you are also suggesting that it should not be tolerated by the Hindustan Times and NDTV …
(via The Last Word, broadcast on 27th November 2010 at 7.45 pm with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN; click on the link to get the video; transcript mine.)
A gap-fill PM ... waiting for Rahul-baba to takeover. (Cartoonist - Manjul).
Checkmate?
This was N Ram’s clinching argument! His BIG idea! Is this all he can summon to damn this behaviour. Can he not think beyond BBC, Financial Times, New York Times, as a benchmark?
Ask me.
N Ram stands damned more than Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi. For how long will the owner-editor for India’s oldest English newspaper allow BBC, Financial Times, New York Times, to decide the standards on which The Hindu will be run?
Looking at N Ram’s aesthetic moorings, is it surprising that The Hindu remains unappetizing, like stale rasam!
Holmes …
Importantly, and interestingly, no one else on the panel found this ‘standard’ worthy of objection, laughter, derisive dismissal – anything at all.
Inspector Gregory: “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Inspector Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
Sherlock Holmes: “That was the curious incident,”
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I think every talking head in India – who speaks English – always refers to precedents in the west. Not sure why you would pick on poor N. Ram…
The information you can learn from the radia tapes is simply mind boggling. Gives a lot of insight into the operating oligarchies.
http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268214
So apt what someone has said: India is not a poor country. Some Indians are poor. 🙂 The amount of money that changes hands over these deals is simply astonishing!
The “Hindu” which has a very rich history has now gone to the dogs thanks to N.Ram. under his leadership we now have an Editor in chief who is U S Citizen, a naxalite with strong Pak connection. What a way to go for a once glorious newspaper in India.