Accusing Times Now

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/11/2010

While the Hindu has been more than willing to speak in her defence and give her the space to tell her story, Arundhati Roy is questioning the credentials of TV channels. In her piece in the Hindu she has more than hinted at the nexus between trouble makers and TV workers. Charging Times Now in particular she says,"sedition is an archaic, obsolete idea revived for us by Times Now, a channel that seems to have hysterically dedicated itself to hunting me down and putting me in the way of mob anger."

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