Narendra Modi - the political heir of Sardar Patel 10/30/2007 3:49:32 AM P. Deivamuthu, Editor, Hindu Voice
John Swinton, the foremost journalist of his day (1890), once said in New York: %u201CThere is no such thing, at this stage of the world%u2019s history in America, as an independent press. ... I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper. ...We are intellectual prostitutes.%u201D
What Swinton said about 100 years ago is a fitting tribute to our present day mediapersons of the likes of Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka.
Tarun Tejpal represents the %u201CBlackmail journalists%u201D of Indian Media. He is a gun totting vagrant let loose in the backyards of the unstructured Indian democracy where the media does not play a fair game. Instead of totting guns he is totting hidden cameras. It plays to the tunes of distant masters, and takes instructions from masters sitting in China, Russia, Vatican and USA.
There was never any ambiguity over the central aim of the sting %u201COperation Kalank%u201D: To secure the downfall of Modi. The reporter Ashis Khetan quite openly admits that he was initially despatched to Gujarat to do %u201Ca sting operation on Chief Minister Narendra Modi%u2019s involvement in a spate of fake encounter killings.%u201D When that pre-judged investigation failed, Tehelka fell back on the riots of 2002.
Indian media is acting like the fifth column and it has let down the Indian people by its loyalties to alien masters, who want a
