Radia tapes: Probing the journalists (Part 4)

The Radia tapes controversy relates to the telephonic conversations between Nira Radia, a professional lobbyist and acquaintance of then Indian telecom minister A. Raja, with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008-09. The tapes led to accusations of misconduct by many of these people. Nira Radia runs a public relations firm named Vaishnavi Communications,[3] whose clients include the Tata Teleservices and Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries.
In November 2010, OPEN magazine[8] carried a story which reported transcripts of some of the telephone conversations of Nira Radia with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, many of whom have denied the allegations. The Central Bureau of Investigation has announced that they have 5,851 recordings of phone conversations by Radia, some of which outline Radia's attempts to broker deals in relation to the 2G spectrum sale.[10] The tapes appear to demonstrate how Radia attempted to use some media persons to influence the decision to appoint A. Raja as telecom minister.


Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV
Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director

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[YTD2008]

Dilip Cherian...you sound like a comedian. Ha ha ha ......

[yogster2007]

Karan - 1 ... Dilip - 0

[nonstopping]

Hahaha..

She never intended to carry the msg.. she was just stringing Radia along..

but then she thought let me just try calling.. once.. no maybe twice.. heck, I can't reach him.. then she thought to herself, oh shit, I forgot, I am only role playing - I shouldn't actually carry the msg..

Well played, Dilip - only a fool will believe you!

[upagaligadha]

@killintymm fuck ur ass



[kannurkarran]

So Barkha bit more than she can chew and now is looking for a place to cast it out; but not in the face of the whole country.

Dilip Cherian is out lbw. here.

[snfab1]

DILIP CHERIAN SAYS HE IS A PR MAN MEANING BROKER A PIMP LIKE LIKE DUTT AND SANGHVI HE AND THAT BALD MAN PRABHU CHAWLA ALSO BELONG TO THIS COSY CLUB THE DIFFERENCE THIS GUYS HAVEN;T BEING CAUGHT HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO DEFEND DUTT WITH ZERO PROOF AND WHEN HE IS CORNERED HE LAUGHS HIS WAY OUT SHOWS HOW SRIOUS HE IS ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST SCAMS EVER

[kamlesh235]

that Dilip sounds like a rogue.......sob 

[kamlesh235]

that Dilip sounds like a rougue.......sob

[vicnick30]

Now Rajdeep Sardesai is criticizing Open magazine for not taking permission from Barkha before publishing those reports. Rajdeep is now raising 'larger' questions of corporate interference in politics. He is now shifting the debate from media scrutiny to corporate scrutiny. But never Rajdeep questions Barkha for not reporting such a important story of a lobbyist interfering in cabinet minister selection? Is Rajdeep trying to hide something? Or just that both are cozy with Congress, so the favor?

[thelazyreader]

Entire NDTV is financed by Congress party funds. Check their finances. They make losses of crores every year. Their income does not come from usual streams.

[killintymm]

lmao. i just wonder how much does dilip cherian owe barkha dutt financially or otherwise to make him blabber such complete crap.