Can You Take It Vinod Dua ?

Good interview, but really, Madhu went soooo easy on this fox. Newslaundry should change its name if Madhu couldn’t even take somebody as despicable as Vinod Dua “to the cleaners” Some thoughts on the interview:

What “pressure” on Dua are we talking about? He is a media guy who plays Holi with the Italian Queen herself and already earns his keep by propagandizing Congressi nonsense. Who can “put pressure” on the one who has Sonia’s hand on his head?

Loved the bit where Madhu exposed how Dua is a dishonest journalist who records his questions *after* recording the interview and even changes them! Also how he tampered and edited with Ramnath Goenka’s interview … disgusting, really.

Through some parts of the interview, I could clearly sense a kind of frustration and bitterness in Dua that today he is just an employee of a news channel rather than owning one himself. After all the “hard work” he put in for “the family”, all he gets are lousy Holi sweets … but the TV channel licenses go to Prannoy Roy and Rajdeep Sardesai

BTW, that bit about Doordarshan with stupid newsreaders and censorship and obsequousness towards the Nehru family is just as true today as well. When was the last time you heard CNN-IBN or NDTV say anything even remotely critical (forget damning) about the dynasty? If anything, “deference”, censorship and distortion of news has only increased in scope and intensity today … And it’s even more ironical that Dua did not name his own channel (NDTV) which everybody knows has an obvious pro-Congress political position!

Wow… according to Trehan, shouting is OK. Speaks loads about her.