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Indian Cristiane Amanpour

I think the term "Indian Christian Amanpour" smacks of an overtly western worldview. A whole lot of people don't know who Christian Amanpour is and a whole lot don't think Amanpour is a good journalist. To keep the narrative neutral and not biased to a specific worldview, I suggest deletion of this line.

Prabha Dutt

I have added citation needed tag . If she really "extensively" covered the war , then she must be a very brave woman considering that she gave birth on 18th December 1971 .Bharatveer 15:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its most likely to be 1965 war.Bharatveer 07:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I would request anybody who can upload images to upload a suitable one for this page. Thanks. Rajatjghai 17:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Elitist Page-3 journalist

POV: I think she is an elitist page-3 journalist (actually most of English/Hindi Indian electronic news Media program/journalist are quite elitist in nature) and 'We the People' is a very elitist program e.g. when it discusses 'Women in Indian Military' the whole focus of debate as well as hers is on officer posts not on non-officer category role/posts, debate on job reservation focuses on higher rank posts only. Same goes for most of the other debates as well. I haven't seen it discussing bigger issues like 'Naxal problem', 'Indian farming scenario', 'Hindu-Muslim divide', 'Sachar Committee' etc I wish to put this in criticism section but most probably it will attract POV deletion, may be someone else can put this in Neutral language. Vjdchauhan 11:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Criticisms

1. Removed the reference to Prannoy Roy being related to Prakash Karat. This is not relevant to the discussion of her alleged leftist ideology because her employer's political leanings do not reflect hers in any way. 2. Removed the statement illustrating her leftist leanings by saying that she championed talking to the terrorists during the Mumbai attack, firstly because it is not clear which Mumbai attack is being talked about (2006/2008?) and secondly because championing that idea is not an indicator of leftist leanings. 3. Removed 'accused of being liberal and secular' from criticism. They are not exactly criticisms...they can be more appropriately defined as adjectives.Philker (talk) 18:34, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

4. Added list of five specific instances where Barkha did compromise the rescue operation (during the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008). This is not judgement-based, there're specific examples and quotes and citations where available.

General Issues

I think this article is being vandalized by people who have a personal dislike of Ms. Dutt. No material on the internet or on television suggests that Ms. Dutt has been asked to resign, or that Ms. Dutt's work was considered anti-Hindu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashwath Rabindranath (talk • contribs) 00:29, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discretion in Language

There is little doubt that Barkha Dutt is a leftist and that she may gloss over the nuances associated with fighting chauvinism/extremism, such as collateral. However, the main page cannot be a sounding board for discussion about her. The place for that is here. I suggest we modify the language of the last paragraph and cite the sources for the Kargil controversy, after Admiral Mehta has repeated the incident which led to the dismissal of a Colonel.--Sayitaintsojoe (talk) 13:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism: Responsible Journalism

I happen to saw some of the point written about Ms Barkha earlier, it seems like some of supporter doesn’t like to see any thing bad about her.

Any way point is Ms Barkha must admit the Criticism and try to understand and respect the journalism.

All the New channel are more of doing business with the emotion of people instead of making people aware of incident or reporting the incident and in unfortunately in our country there is no law who control them or not strong enough.

It is like channel are more violent and ugly, I completely understand this is the might be face of our country. But did you ever realise what effect it might have in society or small child sitting in his home and trying to understand the hurdle of world and suddenly any thing can come across in your TV Screen. I am not suggesting you shouldn’t put the new in TV but I am surprise they way is been reported.

When BBC news telecast they warn when any disturbing news comes on screen but NDTV or Star News or other news channel in our country make sure that disturbing footage will keep repeating it without any warning.

Or might be our reporter think these are daily news for us or everyday thing so has to be like that.

Top of that reporter like Ms Barkha Dutt (as I understand Ms Dutt is one of senior correspondence and new reporters tends to follow there seniors even though that is not the excuse for irresponsible reporting) are not helping the situation even leaving the situation worse.

Hitesh Guleria

Controversies debate

Senior journalists have criticized the Mumbai blast coverage and Ms Dutt came in for specific criticism for having given away details of positions where potential hostages were possibly hiding from terrorists. Hindu

The Hindu link quotes a Chyetanya Kunte, a Netherlands-based engineer and not a Senior journalist. The article does not criticize Barkha Dutt specifically except for this quote by an engineer.--Anshuk (talk) 06:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Social Networking was a major source of live Citizen Journalism during the Mumbai Terror Strikes. Those participating Citizen Journalists have criticized Barkha Dutt for what they called shoddy journalism. They have also formed a group to demand Ms Dutt's removal. FaceBook

I agree that social networking was a major source of citizen journalism. But we need a better reliable source (not facebook) to quote in wikipedia articles. FaceBook is not reliable.--Anshuk (talk) 06:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If Social Networking is accepted as a major source of Information, citing a Social Network site in itself can only be the most direct of such information! The group cited has over 2500 members and all of them are Citizen Journalists which the other Wiki entry cites. So, I do not understand how else such information can be cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilakar (talk • contribs) 07:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They were a major source of citizen journalism on the Mumbai terror attacks. But they are still not a reliable source as per wikipedia policies. Give me some time.. I am trying to find a mention of this facebook entry in a major newspaper/source. --Anshuk (talk) 07:35, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was not able to find any article in google news which specifically talks about Barkha Dutt getting any criticism on FaceBook. There are articles which decry the entire media fraternity but that can not be used to source a criticism on every journalist's article in the media business. --Anshuk (talk) 08:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In a talk show on the Noida double murder case aired by NDTV, members of the audience and experts invited by Barkha, referred to India TV as the purported broadcaster of the pornographic MMS instead of India News, and it was left to Deepak Chaurasia, Senior Editor, Aaj Tak to clarify.'India TV did not air Aarushi photo'

I have taken this text as is from the sify link provided by you. Please don't manipulate words.--Anshuk (talk) 07:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That was hardly any manipulation. There was a complaint. And copy pasting Sify distorts context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilakar (talk • contribs) 08:07, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please point out the passage or sentence which proves that this act by Chaurasia was a complaint and not a clarification.--Anshuk (talk) 08:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's the first paragraph of the story! Do you even read before editing? The story starts, "India TV, a news TV channel run by journalist Rajat Sharma, has complained to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that its fair name and goodwill were being compromised because of regulatory permission given to a company called Information TV, to run a 24-hour news channel by the name of `India News'."