Her reporting was threatening to hurt the secrecy of the operations and it was alleged that her actions aided the enemy Pakistani forces to receive the locations of Indian posts and helped the enemies to contain the Indian Army to some extent. In his book, Puri narrated an incident when the Army was alarmed after Barkha was seen live telecasting a military operation that was supposed to be carried out in complete secrecy. In a book titled “Kargil: Turning the Tide”, author Lt Gen Mohinder Puri provided an account about Barkha Dutt’s irresponsible journalism. What Was Dutt’s Controversial Role During Kargil War
She ups her defence by saying that media wasn’t aware that the handlers of the terrorists were monitoring news channels.One of Twitter users posted a tweet stating that the movie Shershah should have included the part of Barkha Dutt.In the meanwhile Barkha thought that it was an appreciation for her work and she responded by thanking the netizen captioning Batra’s winning slogan “Yeh dil maange more”.But her tweet backfired and the user clarified that she was actually asking to include Dutt’s controversial incident and not as a good figure! However, she does add quickly that when they ‘realised’, from the second day they started deferring visuals of live coverage of the attacks by 15 minutes. Journalists across the board said that.”īarkha admits that perhaps in hindsight did journalists made mistakes during the Mumbai siege. I don’t believe I was the only one who said it. Beyond Barkha Dutt and the study of celebrities in journalism, television studies might also turn on the news to announce headlines about other projects underway on the creative blurring of boundaries between news and popular culture, business journalism, the political economy of the television news industry, the representational politics of. The Oberoi story, I do remember having said at some point… not the exact number but when they was confusion over the fact that the hotel has been cleared, I did say that no, we still have reasons to believe that there are people who are trapped as hostages. I know who they were, I am not going to name them. The Chambers’ conversation that you report, that happened with other set of journalists as well. This was followed by a TOI journalist Raj Shekhar who claimed that another video shared by Mojo Story of a bunch of policemen beating a man, was actually not of recency, but eight months old.
Hemant Karkare died the first night, I was in Delhi. To which Barkha Dutt replied tweeting, I am told these have been removed and the team has been asked to examine how they were shared without verification. Barkha adds, “Chaitanya Kunte said I was responsible for Hemant Karkare’s death. In her defence, Barkha says that like in Kargil war, during Mumbai attack, she became the ‘symbol’ for something every other journalist was doing. Read: Meet the journalism student who almost lost his career for shouting anti-Barkha Dutt slogans Another allegation was about her calling up the Oberoi hotel management which was under siege by the terrorists who confirmed that there were hostages in the hotel the terrorists weren’t aware of. Barkha denies the allegations by saying that she wasn’t the one who reported it. Trehan asks Dutt about allegations that the latter called up someone whose relative was held hostage who inadvertently ended up disclosing location which was used by the terrorists after it was telecast on TV. Barkha says she does not regret sending Kute a legal notice (following which he was strongarmed by the media house to apologise) as the blog accused her of being complicit in death of someone in Mumbai during that terror attack. Barkha is being asked about her bullying of blogger Chaitanya Kunte who had questioned her journalistic ethics. In the video, Newslaundry co-founder Madhu Trehan quizzes Barkha on the allegations levelled against her for the role she along with NDTV where she was associated with back then, played on endangering lives of people. Read: Book reveals that Army was spooked by Barkha Dutt’s reporting in Kargil In a 2012 interview with leftist media outlet Newslaundry, controversial journalist Barkha Dutt had admitted television channels’ role in endangering lives of civilians as well as security personnel by not restraining themselves during telecast. Amir Kasab vs the State Of Maharashtra on 29 August 2012, had dedicated an entire section and several pages to the conduct of the media and how it endangered operations during 26/11.
The Supreme Court, in its judgement in Md. They held the country on ransom for almost three days as some of them holed up inside star hotels in Mumbai, holding hostages, many of them foreign nationals, as the ghastly scenes were telecast live in our living rooms. On 26th November 2008, ten terrorists from Pakistan wrecked havoc in Mumbai.