Barkha Dutt takes on Arnab Goswami: Here is how Twitter reacted

In a Facebook post, Dutt said she is ashamed to be from the same industry as Goswami who called for gagging of media.

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NDTV consulting editor Barkha Dutt and Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.

A day after Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami demanded strict action against “pseudo-secular and pro-Pakistan” journalists on his primetime Newshour debate on July 26, NDTV consulting editor Barkha Dutt lashed out at her former colleague with a strongly worded Facebook post criticising Goswami for his “cowardly hypocrisy”.

In a Facebook post, Dutt said she is ashamed to be from the same industry as Goswami who called for gagging of media. On the Newshour debate, Goswami had called some rival channels sympathisers of militants and pro-Pakistan. He demanded stringent punishment for them.

Barkha Dutt took strong exception to the #ProPakistanDoves term used by him to describe journalists and questioned his silence over the alliance agreement between BJP and PDP that commits them to talks with Pakistan and Hurriyat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own Pakistan outreach.

She also expressed disgust over sections of media’s silence on Goswami calling them ISI agents. “Imagine, a journalist actually exhorts the government to shut down sections of the media, misrepresents them as ISI agents and terror sympathisers, calls for them to be tried and acted against. And our fraternity remains locked into politically correct and timid silence,” wrote the NDTV journalist.

“So he drones on and on about Pro Pakistan Doves without one word on the JK alliance agreement that commits the BJP and PDP to talks with Pakistan and Hurriyat and is silent on Modi’s own Pakistan outreach- neither of which I object to- but since Arnab Goswami measures patriotism by such views why is he so silent on the government? Chamchagiri?” wrote Barkha.

Times Now calls for gagging of media & for journalists to be tried &punished. This man is journalist?Ashamed to be from same industry as him

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) July 27, 2016

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Here’s how Twitterati reacted:

Hey @rahulkanwal no prizes for guessing which one :) https://t.co/xjJzg6YeBx

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) July 27, 2016

Whether or not you like @BDUTT’s reporting is irrelevant: a journalist shouldn’t call for colleagues to be silenced. https://t.co/fekj4ZlbPM

— Patrick French (@PatrickFrench) July 27, 2016

When @BDUTT gives it back to India’s biggest sycophant – Arnab Goswami https://t.co/3ZGacqLr4i

Hey @rahulkanwal no prizes for guessing which one :) https://t.co/xjJzg6YeBx

Hey @rahulkanwal no prizes for guessing which one :) https://t.co/xjJzg6YeBx

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) July 27, 2016

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) July 27, 2016

— Preeti Sharma Menon (@PreetiSMenon) July 27, 2016

Journalists must question ALL politicians.Cong, BJP, TMC etc. Trying to silence the press in name of “nationalism” is nothing but censorship

— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) July 27, 2016

Barkha didi should attack Arnab dada more. That will lead to Arnab getting even more aggressive. And we can watch the fun. LOL :)

— Governing_India (@India_Progress) July 27, 2016

Just saw a Hindu rightwinger call Barkha Dutt a “paid journalist” — what else will any journalist be? No one works for free – employer pays

— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) July 27, 2016

Wow! Agenda of Barkha-Zakka? Good for young Zakka to be hyphenated with a veteran like Barkha by you guys.Well done! https://t.co/ZdNDvlWNVJ

— vir sanghvi (@virsanghvi) July 27, 2016

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