Manasi, while finding Kunte unnecessarily melodramatic, opinionated and given to unwarranted descriptions, thinks NDTV’s actions, from a more human perspective, have little justification:

I am reminded of a case in 2006 of Erik Ringmar, a lecturer from the London School of Economics, whose blog sparked a fiery debate. His book, A Blogger’s Manifesto, describes the story in great detail and with excruciating sarcasm. Perhaps Ringmar did go overboard in his response to the pink slip that he promptly received from the LSE, but the book discusses the blogger’s rights at great length. NDTV would do well to read it.

Bird’s eye view remembers the eighties:

I remember the phrase ‘Draconian laws’ being bandied about way back in the late 80s when the then government wanted to pass laws restricting what the media could cover and what they could say. The media made a spirited defense of the right to free speech and eventually managed to prevent the law from being passed. sad to say, according to media behaviour, it looks like the principles of free speech only seem to apply to the corporatised, powerful media today.

Dipali asks Barkhaji if she would like a list of bloggers who have criticized her coverage of 26/11.

Eve’s lungs reminds us how the coverage which provoked Kunte’s post was like:

It was a relentless , hysterical pursuit for “that quote”, “that angle”, “that scoop”. In the process , perhaps , what was sacrificed at times was common decency at respecting the right to grieve and mourn – in the righteous endeavour to hold up to the waiting public , all the right scoops at the right time – give the public, the vicarious satisfaction of having pried into private griefs and sorrows, at commando strategies and hand to hand battles , right there in the drawing room or bedroom wherever the television set was kept .

SMM asks- do only the great almighty Barkha Dutt and NDTV have freedom of expression?

I wrote about a very bad meal I had sometime back at one of the most famous eating joints in Delhi. I have also written about a book which really touched me and made me think. It’s okay if I write that I don’t like a movie or a book, but dare anyone say they don’t like Barkha Dutt.

Kiran posts a work of fiction- go read it. It’s amusing, definitely.

I am a blogger – I do not wish to disclose my name in the interest of privacy. There were terror attacks in my country (again I would prefer not to disclose my nationality either) on the 52nd day of the 22nd month last year (lets call this incident as the “52/22 attacks”). Most of the news channels in my country were irresponsible in their coverage of the event; but one particular channel – EmpTy-TV, was outstandingly shoddy.

I had put forth this opinion is as many words in a blog post immediately after the 52/22 attacks. I had singled out one female reporter of the channel – named Ms. Parkha Strutt (how apt, since all she does is strut her half-baked sense of journalism in front of the camera) for severe criticism.