'Are we a mouthpiece for BJP or RSS?' Zee News producer quits over JNU coverage

February 22, 2016 11:15

Following intense criticism of the coverage of the JNU incident by certain TV channels, a Zee News producer, Vishwa Deepak, resigned from the channel on Sunday after penning a long letter with allegations of bias on the channel.

Taking to Facebook, Deepak wrote: "The way the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student's Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was framed in the name of 'nationalism' and, after a media trial, was proved to be an anti-national, is an extremely dangerous trend. As journalists, it is our responsibility to question the powers that be, not move step in step with the powerful. Whatever good and beautiful has been achieved in the history of journalism is the result of these questions.'

He also went on to ask if they were "the mouthpieces of the BJP or the RSS that we will do whatever they say? The video didn't have any "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans at all -- yet we played it repeatedly to spread madness and mayhem. How did we believe that some voices coming out of the dark belonged to Kanhaiya and his companions?"

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