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The Radia tapes in the public domain are just a tip of the iceberg, says Home Secretary G K Pillai while adding that the leaked conversations have nothing to with the 2G scam. When will the real tapes on the 2G scam made public, the bureaucrat said nothing about it.
It brings up a very important point – why is the Government not acting and also not telling the country who are the real culprits. By not taking action, the government seems to be shielding the guilty. Just conducting CBI raids is not enough. It is too late in the day. Anybody can hide file and make relevant changes to the records in record time. Here we are talking about the inaction of (Sonia Gandhi) PM and the system. Should the systematic loot of the country be allowed to go unchecked, is the moot question.
But while the 5,000 tapes are still in government files, what has come out is itself damning. The so-far-released tapes have showed how corporate lobbyist Nira Radia was hobnobbing with top industrialists, politicians and journalists to ensure that cabinet berths are allocated to her briefs and dictating how journalists should write the stories.
Now there is a concerted effort to justify the ugly conversations. Journalists Rajdeep Sardesai jumped in the fray and defended members of the clan - Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi. Why Rajdeep took the task of defending them should be clear as he also figures somewhere on the tapes. The CNN-IBN and NDTV are showing promos of another magazine justifying the lobbying by journalists and claiming that the journalists mentioned in the tapes were the top shots of Indian journalism. What is wrong in lobbying, is the question.
No one has mentioned anything regarding the gifts or free junkets that the journalists get. Please do not look at the bargain and neat barter that has not been revealed. Let the same editors come clean on the freebees they got, or the gifts they received from Radia. Rajdeep argues that the magazines (that carried Radia transcripts) violated principles of journalism by publishing raw data. The journalists concerned were guilty of "professional misjudgement" rather than "professional misconduct", he clarified. So we now have to learn journalism ethics from the Editors' Guild president. It seems that the ones involved are now digging in to teach the world what journalists should do or not do and how they should conduct their business. Great!
Is it alright to let the public relations companies not only dictate stories to journalists but ask them to act as dalals? It is amazing how corruption is now being legitimatized. The ball is now in the court of the people. You, the readers, decide. Please be the judge.