Totally apples and oranges sir. This can be dangerous and lame if it has been done, publicity stunts will anyway come in action. Just for the sake of some popularity it is risky, doesn’t matter what US does or not, I’ve even listen that they have some PR team for their forces. Not defending Arnab here but what he said was 'something big is gonna happen’. Now everyone knew at that time our Armed forces will take revenge. We all know that this govt stance is hard on cross border terrorism. So everyone knew that govt would take some big action and perhaps may do Air attack. Also the fact that elections were near so whatever they gonna do had to be done before elections. Modi had already told that befitting reply will be given after the Surgical Strike earlier everyone easily knew that Modi would do something So Arnab didn't have something special news there like Air Force will strike It's a strike I bet most people would say the same post the Pulwama attacks and Modi's message to the nation. please correct me if I’m wrong , but I dont think the chat incriminates anything against him. He just said something big is going to happen which anyone in a political circle would know because certain things can be expected out of certain leaders. Even left leaning news laundry has said that a leading defence journalist knew about it.
Chris Wallace was given the information after Bin Laden was dead and the troops that went in, came out safely. Not before the attack or when the troops were in enemy territory.
Wolf Blitzer was assigned the role in Pentagon and was given information with just a less delay compared to other people. He got the information accurate from the White House on an official capacity. And again, after the attack happened.
This is Chris Wallace. He is among the more reputable Media People and Newspeople in the US (Though he works for Fox now). Does that mean Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee government gave permission to NDTV’s Barkha Dutt to cover Kargil war from extremely close range? It’s impossible to get access to war ground by anyone unless they have permission by the Defence and the government to enter the restricted area.Otherwise, it is next to impossible. During peace time too,no one can enter defence territory without permission. Army intelligence is always on the alert. Then how do you expect a tv crew to just walk in into the middle of a raging war unless they have been given a go- ahead by the Defence officials and the PMO?
In 2011 - Joe Biden sent him a message about Bin Ladens death - 18 hours before Obama made the announcement. The rest of the networks were tipped off that some major announcement was coming through but Wallace and 2 other highly reputable and trustworthy media people were told it was Bin Laden.
This is Wolf Blitzer. During the 1991 Desert Storm in Iraq - He received Intel sometimes 2 - 3 days before the actual operations. He had integrity and reputation and would never do things for TRP boosting So this is nothing surprising. Soon after the Pulwama attack My Mrs asked me if Mody will take action against Pakistan, My opinion was maybe but nobody knows when. When it comes to National Security It is the call of The PM. When he does you can speculate but never Exactly when. A lot of Media reports are from Whatapp University. Sir it is one of the main reasons, I consider NDTV as dangerous as republic TV
Goswami is a blabbermouth , biased, non sense journalist,no doubt in that, it is confirmed
I still remember Barkha Dutt, standing infront of a Bofors gun and shouting on television with NDTV crew that indian army had began its assault on tiger hill , and a patrol party from 8 sikh has been sent for reconnaissance mission
Consequence - complete indian army patrol party of 20 soldiers led by lieutenant KD Singh was wiped out, 20 soldiers lost their lives to get a breaking news
Same was in the case of 26/11 , due to NDTV live broadcasting , hostages and NSG commando Sandeep unnikrishnan lost his Life
Again 2013. They blundered by giving out details of colonel hunny Bakshi
Sir, in the end Barkha and NDTV got their headlines first but soldiers of Indian army lost their lives too
So sir tell me, does this act still make you trust upon on our indian media channels like zee, republic,NDTV?
Sir I believe NDTV and republic are no different, now republic is blundering earlier NDTV blundered, whose blunder is greater?
Journalists are sometimes tipped off about Major operations before they happen. Goswami handled it well and surprisingly he did not botch things up like Barkha Dutt did with Kargil or 26/11.
The reason Journalists are tipped off is because (a) Some of them are trustworthy to keep it to themselves (b) Once the operation happens - the reporting is instantaneous and the Government gets any positive publicity immediately like Obama did for the Bin Laden Raid since Wallace had a lot of people ready the moment Obamas announcement ended.
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