Anachronism says he does not ‘hate/loathe/despise NDTV or any of it’s affiliated networks’ nor does he harbour ‘personal grudges against Barkha Dutt, i am merely “disappointed” that she let me down’:

This is the blog post which led to Chyetanya Kunte being served a legal notice. I’ve put it up for those who haven’t read it, using my Constitutional Right to Expression, and also my Constitutional Freedom of Speech. There’s also the RTI Act, which you can use incase you or I are served with a few notices/other signs of crankiness from anyone.
Before i post this, let me clarify a few things, lest i hurt another journalist’s feelings. Journo’s are meant to be all tough and smart and all.. what happened to them ? Have they been watching too much Bush ?

And two random international bloggers who have written on the issue:

Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog puts it succinctly:

Lesson to news organisations: your viewers are your distributors now. Suing them is not good management. Nor is it good for freedom of speech – something you might find useful yourselves in the future.

Natalie, New Zealand, who blogs at Simple And Loveable says ‘that was a stupid move from the TV station’:

One blogger has been sued for claiming a TV station used ’shoddy journalism’ and has unpublished his post and issues a retraction statement.

The result?

Fairly obvious really. The entire blogosphere erupts, people re-publish the post on their websites and the overall publicity for the news station is hugely negative.

What can they do now? Sue thousands of bloggers?