Republic TV is certainly breaking new ground. One April 8 it conducted a murder investigation in a TV studio, and kept calling the death of Sunanda Pushkar a murder before anything had been conclusively proven. At one point Arnab Goswami also described Shashi Tharoor as a cold-blooded murderer. Defamation is evidently not an issue. Nineteen audio tapes were presented as circumstantial evidence before a large panel of studio guests, where the two politicians present were both from the BJP. The only representative on the panel who was described as a long time associate of Shashi Tharoor was drowned out by a shouting Goswami whenever he tried to speak. Finally, there were ample hints right through the programme that Goswami and the reporter had the incriminating tapes when they were at Times Now but that the channel had not been allowed to put out the tapes because of pressure from Tharoor.