Watching Dhawan

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/09/2011

This was refreshing: On NDTV's nightly Left, Right and Centre show four journalists, including host Nidhi Razdan, Swapan Dasgupta, Praveen Swamy, and Padma Rao could barely suppress their laughter when Indira Gandhi's secretary RK Dhawan shot off his mouth. Jacqueline Kennedy's recently released views of Indira Gandhi were "disparaging", he said. Adding that Kennedy "went after money" (reference to her marriage to Onasis, the tycoon) soon after her husband's assassination. The journalists did not interrupt. They chortled in amusement, letting the man make a fool of himself with his disparaging remarks.

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