Ex-Republic TV Journo Slams Channel Over Poll on Gauri Lankesh

Though Nandy quit Republic in June for personal reasons, their coverage on Gauri Lankesh’s murder made her sit up.

Protests against Gauri Lankesh’s murder held in Bengaluru

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“Every media house has an ideological bent. But there needs to be some kind of sensitivity and dignity.”

That’s how former Republic TV journalist Sumana Nandy outraged against her ex-employer, when The Quint contacted her over a recent Facebook post, where she had denounced any association with the organisation.

Though Nandy had quit the channel in June owing to personal reasons, a recent poll by the channel following Gauri Lankesh’s murder forced her to take to Facebook to slam them for their coverage.

Nandy, in her Facebook post, wrote:

A journalist is murdered in cold blood, days after receiving death threats from the BJP-RSS cadres. And instead of questioning these murderers, you question the opposition? Where is the integrity? Where are we heading? 

Further, in her Facebook post she wrote that while she had always been proud of the organisations she was associated with, she was now ‘ashamed’ to be associated with the channel.

Going on to liken the state of journalism in India with that of North Korea or Saudi Arabia, she wrote:

Some ‘journalists’ are even celebrating the massacre (that she brought it on herself.) Well, yes! This is what happens in Saudi Arabia and North Korea. We are just a few more deaths away from catching up with these countries. If the fourth pillar sells its soul, where will the society go? 

Nandy isn’t the only person questioning the media’s coverage on Gauri Lankesh’s murder. Various news organisations have been called out for turning the senior journalist’s murder into an ideological battle between the government and the opposition, blaming either of the groups.

Read Nandy’s entire post here:

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