If there’s a single word to describe the leaked WhatsApp conversations between Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta, it is hubris. The chats reveal a shocking collusion between a channel head and a TV ratings agency and how the entire system of rating TV news is seriously compromised. Yet the nub of the issue is more than collusion, it is the journalist’s notion of his invincibility.
So what is the self-image of the celebrity TV anchor today? More often than not, it is one where he or she places himself as part of the ruling elite. The advent of private news television should have strengthened the media vis-à-vis the state, instead it has actually weakened the Read More
