Can You Take It Paranjoy Guha Thakurta?

Mr Thakurta is no non-sense, and makes a lot of sense when he speaks for the southward trend of standards of journalists, news-tv-channels, print media and its repercussions arising in the form of talk of laws, govt handling and empowerment of PCI etc.

Madhu should have brought thakurta with her on WEF debate regarding internet censorship. He would have given riposte to utter nonsense of sibbal there. This interview is one of most intelligent and informative interview i saw in years.

Please want to Madhu grilling Arnab Goswami

Good one. Few good men can change the world. Currently, there are too few like Thakurta. He is a simpleton outside, Acharya inside. Keep it up Mr. Thakurta.

The new channel in TN that is being referred to is owned by one of the biggest educational baron who has amongst his businesses colleges, hospital, transport, hospitality etc and who has open political ambitions and also heads a small political outfit. He is currently endearing by pitting the 2 front runners against each other.

Convenient.. hate MF Hussain.. Hate government… Arun Poories shameless act against Salman Khurshid… The poorie family a pure BJP appendix

Interesting man this…Guha Thakurta! From economics to Pink Floyd and Victorian literature, he’s a wealth of information…often inarticulate but nevertheless is a walking talking library. He is a good man but borders on the megalomania-cal from time to time. Here’s the deal…Guha Thakurta made some interesting observations on ethics in journalism, which I subscribe to as an ex-journalist.

But Mr. Thakurta in one of his avatars is/was a corporate trainer, who conducts/conducted workshops. One of which, I had the good fortune of attending before I became a journalist. Ironically enough, the workshop was organized by a PR agency that I worked with very briefly (PR, I believe is the anti-thesis of journalism and is possibly a greater evil than even paid news, which is why I left the profession after a couple of months of flirting with it). And a lot of information given out at these workshops was quite contrary in meaning and spirit to the causes that Mr. Thakurta espouses here.

I wouldn’t necessarily go so far as to allege conflict of interest or ethical wrongdoing but what I will accuse Thakurta of, is extremely high levels of hypocrisy. On the one hand, Thakurta talks about news and information being sacrosanct but on the other is more than happy to be on PR agency rolls to train budding media students “deal with journalists”. The word sneaky was used a few times during the course of the interview, but in my book PR is just as sneaky if not more than corporate ownership. Nira Radia ring a bell??

please post the entire interview.

Extreme ends of spectrum when you watch this interview and the one with Deepak Chorsia.Its hard to believe they belong to the same fraternity.And its the misfortune of the current generation that everybody knows the latter but very few are aware of the kind of work Mr. T has done.Thanks NL.