Since the time of its inception, Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV has ruffled feathers and how. From dragging Shashi Tharoor along the mud for his supposed silence on wife, Sunanda Pushkar’s death to straight manhandling of a grieving father who lost his innocent child in the sensational Ryan International school murder, Republic TV has been all over the headlines and not because of ideal reasons.
If you haven’t guessed it already, it has managed to do it again and the reason this time is will make you question their sense of professionalism. Why? Because the organisation allegedly harassed a Senior Correspondent, till she quit because Shashi Tharoor follows her on Twitter!
While it may sound too absurd to be true, the following will convince you otherwise. In a shocking exposé, journalist Shweta Kothari, has resigned due to unavoidable circumstances and her Facebook post chronicles all of it. Read it here.
Later at around 7 PM, the Editor in question called me up and accused me of ‘flirting’ with the SHO. When I protested, she threatened to make the conversation public and destroy my career.
While I am thankful to the organisation for giving me a great learning experience and abundant opportunities, I hope this pattern of vilification of employees on the basis hearsay ceases to exist.
This is not the first public resignation from the house of Republic. Earlier, Sumana Nandy had resigned sighting differences that cropped while handling Gauri Lankesh’s murder news.
Now, while law and order takes its own time in guaranteeing credibility to either of the cases, nothing takes away from the fact that Republic TV’s image has and will take hit from these grave accusations! In fact, the fight has just begun…