Shanti has this on Praful Bidwai's latest column which is aptly titled "Of Lies, Trickery & Deception"
It is unfortunate that people like Praful Bidwai are disseminating lies and a news organization like Rediff is giving them the forum to do it. The allegation that the toppling of the statue in Baghdad was stage-managed has been debunked at least two weeks ago, as soon as it surfaced. It is a great disservice to the readers to publish such columns without any mention of the other point-of-view or at least a note at the end of the column pointing to the debunking.
I would like to see how Rediff responds to this. Ajit Balakrishnan, the CEO of Rediff has a blog. But he does not have comments enabled.
Update: Got a mail from Ajit Balakrishnan. He has asked his editorial collegues to look into it.
Comments (2)
Another strange thing about the column is that the link www.informationclearinghouse.info and the href that points to a different URL, both of them don't work. Rediff had better remove the column or at least print a retraction, but I wonder if they have the integrity to do so.
Posted by Shanti | April 23, 2003 10:18 AM
Posted on April 23, 2003 10:18
maybe you can get to Ajit Balakrishnan at:
ajitb@rediff.co.in
Posted by DesertBee | April 23, 2003 5:26 PM
Posted on April 23, 2003 17:26