Linda Tripp would have made a great
chief editor at TimesNow or any of
the TOI outlets. Linda who? Linda
Tripp is famous for her involvement in the Monica Lewinsky – Bill Clinton Oval office
affair. Linda was a friend and co-worker of Lewinsky and had secretly recorded
telephone conversations with the latter where she had confided in Tripp about
her affair at the White House. Tripp claimed she was doing this because she is
a patriot. She should have been prosecuted and would have spent time in jail
under her State laws but she bought immunity with Clinton’s prosecutors
in exchange for the tape and was thus spared. Wiretapping and recording without
the knowledge of the other person is illegal and punishable in the US. The only
escape could be self-defence under certain circumstances. For many years Linda
Tripp has been among the most loathed and despised woman in her country. She is
seen as an epitome of betrayal of trust and friendship. We all know what or
who a scoundrel is but, still, for the record:
Almost every reporter in TimesNow
qualifies for the title and the description. In their quest for silly
soundbites there is nothing that their reporters haven’t done. They have stalked
people, poked mics into their faces and bodies, poked mics and cameras into
their cars, shouted and screamed at them, refuse to take “no comment” as an answer and keep pestering beyond tolerance. They
have even stalked residences of people and harassed spouses of political targets
accused of something or merely for soundbites. Remember how these same
scoundrels made a grand theatre of the Rohtak
“Belter sisters” right into their village, home and interviews with family?
All for a kick! Here’s a pic from December 11 with one of their scoundrels
badgering a guy:
I don’t know the stupid reporter’s name
and it doesn’t matter. Because Arnab
Goswami wants to rant and scream every night like his pants were on fire,
his reporters have picked up the same habit and cult. They believe others are
not humans and are perhaps pigs and deserve to be treated that way.
The guy in
the TimesNow pic is supposedly Rajeshwar Singh
of some Dharam Jagran Manch. The TimesNow reporter kept barking at him
repeatedly on the issue of conversions even when the guy kept saying he had nothing
to say. She tells him “You gave
soundbites in the morning, why can’t you give me soundbites now”? What is
that supposed to mean? That she has a God-given or Constitutional entitlement
to soundbites? No matter what you want to accuse someone of, when the person
says “no comments” a respectable reporter can push a little bit but in the end
should be able to take “no” for an answer. Looks like all the TimesNow
reporters (and most from other channels too) have studied journalism from the
School for Scoundrels. And like Linda Tripp one of their scoundrels named Samia tries to con a Delhi police
officer (over the Uber rape case) in
this video (3.04 mins):
Imagine the unscrupulous rogue’s brazen
deception. That’s how Arnab would word it. She calls the officer on the phone,
tells her its “off record” and
shamelessly plays it on the speaker phone and the TimesNow editors gladly play
it too. This is why the Editors Guild of India is a bunch of shameless morons
that I call a “Union of snakes”. For
this blatant betrayal and unethical practice, the reporter should have been
sacked and so too the studio editor who let it play. But as we have all come to
learn, for the scoundrels in the media, ethics are for others. They will
moralise the whole country but will behave like third-rate unethical scoundrels
themselves. Is this a one-off stray case that happened accidentally? Not at
all, here’s a previous one which is clearly wilfully done with a guy called Naveen Tyagi of Hindu Mahasabha in the
first week of December (1 min):
Now this Tyagi guy wants to brand and
ban all “item girls” as prostitutes.
I have shortened the video to the relevant part to demonstrate the point but
you can watch the full 5-minute video on Youtube.
It is interesting how this works. First, they tell you (and have obviously told
Tyagi) that this is “off camera”. In
which case, why were they still recording it? Any answers? And having video-recorded
that “off camera” conversation they air it claiming it is in public interest.
The perfect opportunity for Arnab’s little underwear, the scoundrel called Anand Narasimhan, to go on a
self-righteous rant with a hashtag #MoralMonster,
when it is Timesnow anchors and reporters who are the real #MoralMonsters. Who
are these people? And do all Hindus really follow the “diktats” of any Sabha or
individual as these morons rant?
The rant is that Timesnow wants to show
their “mindset”. You and I may not
agree with what Tyagi thinks about item-girls but that is irrelevant. The fact is the conversation was
off-record. Supposing you and I were talking on the phone and you were to tell
me “between you and me, Arnab is having an affair”. I promise to keep it to
myself and not disclose the conversation but the very next day I tweet about
it, what would you say to me? How would you feel and what would you think of me?
As soon as the Timesnow scoundrels aired
the “off record” video, the anchors got hold of a few women activists who
condemned Tyagi, the Hindu Mahasabha and everyone on Jupiter too. Not
surprisingly, there were a few idiots who told Timesnow they will carry out
protests against Tyagi and his Sabha for going to SC with such an appeal (to
declare item girls as prostitutes). These are the morons that Timesnow
encourages as virtuous people. Tyagi has not threatened to attack, kill or
carry out mass agitation against item-girls nor has posed any physical threat
to them. Going to court (no matter how
stupid your demand) is the most reasonable thing to do in a democracy. Why
would the moron-friends of Timesnow want to protest against that? But this
foolish outrage is exactly what Arnab and his stupid bimbos want to provoke. It
doesn’t stop there because the agenda of these scoundrels runs deeper as the
related TOI report will establish:
“Times View
The Hindu Mahasabha leader's
comments on what kind of clothes women should wear and why item girls should be
treated as prostitutes smacks of the medieval mindset that is exhibited by
outfits like the Taliban or the Islamic State. What is alarming is that such
statements are becoming increasingly frequent in India from right wing groups
of all hues, some citing religion and others caste traditions as their
justification for moral policing. The prime minister should be aware that at
least some of these groups feel emboldened by the perception that there is now
a government that is sympathetic to their viewpoint. Mr Modi has repeatedly
emphasized that he wants to build a modern India that can hold its head high in
the global community. Unless such groups are reined in, India's image can only
take a beating, at home and abroad”.
There you go! That’s the agenda. First
play a video that is meant to be off-record and shouldn’t have been played at
all. Give a fake explanation that they play this in public interest when there
was no public threat at all of any kind. All that Tyagi did was express an
opinion and said he will approach the SC. Even if that is a “mindset” that is
not agreeable Timesnow had no business to betray his confidence and fool
people. But, obviously, the juice is that they want to connect it to PM Modi
and claim it damages India’s image.
Surgical
procedure: Play an off-record
conversation where people often tend to blabber a lot. Claim it poses a serious
threat to society when there is none. Concoct
a political angle and agenda by somehow blaming Modi and the BJP for such
instances and go on a rampage. And these are the scoundrels who moralise and
sermonise the world about ethics.
