‘द हिंदू’ की पूर्व संपादक मालिनी पार्थसारथी ने गत 4 जुलाई के एक ट्वीट के मार्फत अखबार पर पक्षपात का आरोप लगाया और प्रेस की जिम्मेदारी और जवाबदेही की तत्काल आवश्यकता को रेखांकित किया। उन्होंने महाराष्ट्र में राकांपा में हुई बगावत की कवरेज और उस विषय पर लिखे गए संपादकीय की शब्दावली को चिह्नित करते हुए लिखा है:
For those wondering what I meant when I said that the space for
my campaign to restore the great legacy of impartial journalism without
prejudice @the_hindu was shrinking, here are examples of the biased writing I
sought to resist being planted in our columns.
The headline on Page 1 today, saying “NCP lurches” is not
bias-free, it gives away the plot right at the start!
Today’s editorial speaks contemptuously of the breakaway group
of NCP legislators, calling their act “a smoke and mirrors game”. The last
line, the punchline talks of the BJP’s “playbook”. Are there no playbooks for
other political parties?
While it’s nobody’s case that one should bat for either side of
this game, to be so blatantly prejudiced is against our tradition of neutral
commentary.
I am deeply anguished by the departure from our newspaper’s
tradition of dignified analysis and sober introspection.
I share this with our well-wishers here on this platform as I
know many wishes @the_hindu well and want to see its neutral and balanced
presentation of content restored.
What Indian journalism needs urgently is a commitment to
producing narratives that are honest, bias-free and open ended in forming
conclusions. The reader deserves the best!
इसके पहले की कुछ खबरें
‘Editorial views shrinking’: Malini Parthasarathy resigns as The
Hindu chairperson
05 Jun, 2023
Journalist Malini Parthasarathy has quit as the chairperson of
The Hindu Group Publishing, she said in a tweet on Monday, stating that the
“space and scope” in the publication for her “editorial views was shrinking”.
Hinting at possible differences with the Board, she said her efforts at the organisation was to free “our narrative” from “entrenched ideological bias”, and the scope for her efforts “has narrowed”.
