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. 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. India News: A n FIR was lodged on Sunday against users of eight Twitter handles, including themojostory run by senior journalist Barkha Dutt, for spreading misl. 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. Hemant Karkare died the first night, I was in Delhi. 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.
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