Arnab's Y security: Questions the nation needs to ask
October 18, 2016 15:19
It is a sign of the times we live in that the elevation of journalist Arnab Goswami to the status of a VIP with "Y" security has evoked more amusement than alarm.
According to a report in The Hindustan Times, quoting an unidentified home ministry official, 20 guards, including two for "close proximity" security, will protect the editor-in-chief of Times Now news channel. The report adds that the security was necessitated by a threat perception of his comments on Pakistani terror groups.
When a journalist is under threat, however reviled or lauded he or she may be, the media profession does need to sit up and ask a few questions. However, since one is unsure whether the assignment of this much-coveted security status will make it to the Newshour debate, here are a few issues the nation needs to debate... Read
According to a report in The Hindustan Times, quoting an unidentified home ministry official, 20 guards, including two for "close proximity" security, will protect the editor-in-chief of Times Now news channel. The report adds that the security was necessitated by a threat perception of his comments on Pakistani terror groups.
When a journalist is under threat, however reviled or lauded he or she may be, the media profession does need to sit up and ask a few questions. However, since one is unsure whether the assignment of this much-coveted security status will make it to the Newshour debate, here are a few issues the nation needs to debate... Read
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