Anchors' agenda?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/02/2014

"Mr Goswami, you are at your best tonight," AAP’s Prof Anand Kumar, at the receiving end of Times Now's inquisition, told Arnab on Friday (Jan 31) night, showing a patience rare on Arnab’s show. Not only did Goswami start the show by passing judgment on AAP as a "khap supporter",  but without letting the professor complete his points, called in his battery of panellists to take on his "anteduvelian" views. The professor's opening submission – that khap panchayats  are a traditional reality that exist despite the Constitution, and  must be grappled with – made sense even to the lay viewer. So how come the erudite Mr Goswami didn't get it? An agenda at work? A similar agenda was seen in Sagarika Ghose’s Face the Nation on 'one month of AAP',  when she tried, in vain, to get Capt Gopinath to bad-mouth AAP, having failed thoroughly to get the same result from Medha Patkar.