India Today’s Managing Editor Rahul Kanwal embarrassed on Live TV after defence expert corrects him for showing wreckage of MIG 21 claiming it F16
By Raja Chowdhury
New Delhi: Exposing the Over
Hyped Mainstream Media again, INDvestigations, now reveals how a
Managing Editor Rahul Kanwal
one of the most respected Media houses India
Today speaks without even having the necessary informations or inputs of a news
item particularly in this highly sensitive times. He should not forget that the
channels should
be extra cautious before airing stories in this nearly-a war-
like situation.
Post Pulwama terror
attack, almost all Indian channels appeared to have made desperate attempts to
outsmart each other in proving their patriotism. The channels in question this
time weren’t just the usual suspects such as Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV, Times
Now or Zee News. Facts gave way to unverified bits of hearsay on almost all
channels, who wasted no time in broadcasting a claim that the Indian air
strikes had killed more than 300 terrorists in Pakistan’s Balakot.
From the press conference of
the three services of the Indian armed forces, it became clear that there was
no truth in those claims. Objectivity also became a casualty on 27 February,
when Indian TV channels endlessly relied on their ‘government sources’ to
broadcast pro-government claims.
On 27 February, when the
Pakistani Air Force breached the Indian airspace, the neighbouring country’s
military said that it had downed two Indian aircrafts and had taken two Indian
pilots captive. Soon, it emerged that their claim was not entirely true as they
could only present Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman before the public.
On the Indian side, the armed
forces claimed to bring down one Pakistani F16 on 27 February. That F16 jet was
believed to have been brought down by Wing Commander Abhinandan before his own
MiG 21 went down in the enemy’s space.
On Thursday, during the press
conference of the three services of the Indian military, the Indian Air
Force showed evidence of the Pakistani Air Force using F-16 to target
Indian military installations in Jammu and Kashmir. Senior Air Force officers
displayed the cover of an AMRAAM missile, which was fired from Pakistani an
F-16 aircraft, found near the LoC in India.
India Today’s Rahul Kanwal
went on air with several guests to analyse the fall out of 27 February’s
military skirmishes at the LoC and the subsequent announcement by Pakistani
Prime Minister Imran Khan to release Wing Commander Abhinandan.
Minutes after his broadcast,
Pakistani social media users including journalists took to Twitter to post a
video clip of his programme, where he’s being corrected by defence analyst
Abhijeet Iyer-Mitra for factual inaccuracies.
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