There is
something sinister going on. It’s not as if information is not available but
almost no media outlet wants to make any noise about it. Forget noise, they seem
scared to even whisper about it. All the Shomas, Ranas, Sreenivasans, Rajdeeps,
Arnabs, Barkhas, Nidhis seem to have crawled into a hole over new revelations
in the RailGate bribery case. Of
course, I don’t even expect Sreenivasan Jain or anyone from NDTV to talk about
RailGate but others too seem to have clamped up. That’s how scary the ‘Gandhi’
name is. I have stated before that the moment ‘Gandhi’ is mentioned, our media
celebs piss in their pants and skirts. That’s how scared they are. It stands to
reason that there must be so much crime in the media that they wouldn’t want
the CBI on their backs. Would they? Smart choice!
The RailGate
bribery has taken a sinister turn after Pawan
Kumar Bansal was given a clean-chit by the CBI. Imagine, someone who should be an accused is being touted as a
‘witness’ in the case. Still, when a senior BJP member, Satyapal Jain, has been putting out transcripts of the phone
conversations nobody seems to even want to look at it. The one newspaper that
did report it suddenly did an NDTV. We now know that in critical cases people
keep screenshots of NDTV’s webpages since their love disappears overnight but
the Daily Bhaskar did something
similar in the RailGate episode. This was a report on the case that included
the names of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in the phone transcripts.
In other cases the spinmeisters at NDTV and Tehelka would have considered it
enough to indict people as they do in the encounter killing cases. So here’s
the deleted page from Daily Bhaskar from report they carried on July 28 as it appeared on 9.03am on
July 29:
The original
report has been deleted. There was no explanation why or if there was a
retraction due to some error. Nothing! DB must have received some ‘friendly’
calls I suppose. Considering DB also has print versions in Hindi and other
languages I wonder if they carried the report in print. Anyway, from the
web-cache I have pieced together images from the original report as it appeared
in sequence of the report:
The DB
report was based on investigation and tweets of Satyapal Jain (@SatyapalJain)
and I reproduce the tweet in which names of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi appear. That
particular part has been highlighted and shown in the box in red:
You can read
the full report of DB saved as a snapshot here as well. I recommend also read the series of tweets of @SatyapalJain on RailGate from July 28
to 29. He has systematically put up transcripts from the CBI records and the
records show calls were also made to Ahmed
Patel (Sonia’s political advisor) and cross-references indicate Bansal was
pretty much in the know of what’s going on.
Someone once
asked me if the media in India has freedom. All I can say is freedom is a
choice, as is slavery. In the last decade our media has gone from crawlers and
bootlickers to being absolute slaves. Those who should be putting the fear of
the devil in a govt are cowering and crawling as slaves. This is what
corruption does to an individual or to an organisation or an entire industry. The media remains the first line of defence
for the corrupt.
