Barkha Dutt rips apart Arnab Goswami in an FB post

Times Now calls for gagging of media and for journalists to be tried and punished. This man is journalist?

I am ashamed to be from same industry as him.

What's striking is his brazen and cowardly hypocrisy. So he drones on and on about pro-Pakistan doves without one word on the J&K alliance agreement that commits the BJP and PDP to talks with Pakistan and Hurriyat and is silent on Modi's own Pakistan outreach-  neither of which I object to - but since Goswami measures patriotism by such views, why is he so silent on the government?

Chamchagiri?

Imagine, a journalist actually exhorts the government to shut down sections of the media, misrepresents them as ISI agents and terror sympathisers, calls for them to be tried and acted against.

And our fraternity remains locked into politically correct and timid silence.

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Well, I'm not a shrinking violet Mr Goswami and no matter how many times you take my name directly or indirectly on your show, I really don't give a toss for your opinion.

I hope I will always be someone whose journalism you loathe, because trust me, the feeling is so utterly mutual that it would kill me to be on the same side of any issue as you.

(This first appeared on Barkha Dutt's Facebook timeline.)