Arnab does JNU’s anti nationals a favour

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/02/2016

I am talking about hypocrisy with a capital H, Arnab Goswami screamed on Times Now on Feb 15, referring to free speech issues which arose during the UPA regime. He claimed that he did not see freedom of expression become an issue then. Not only was he rewriting history, he was guilty of hypocrisy himself, playing over and over again last night a video of anti national sloganeering which would have got very little exposure if he hadn’t decided to exploit it for his show.

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