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CNN-IBN said it has the right to air tape: Somnath to Advani
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/341620.html
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: The onus for telecasting the CDs containing footage of the supposed cash-for-vote scam now lies with news channel CNN-IBN following an exchange of letters between Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani.
According to senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, the Speaker, while leaving the decision of making the CDs public to the House committee constituted to look in to the scam, told Advani that the channel has claimed that it has the right to telecast the CDs whenever it wants. Swaraj said the Speaker has also said in the letter that the channel has copies of the CDs.
The channel, after refraining from telecasting the CDs, had voluntarily handed them over to the Lok Sabha secretariat. The CDs are among the evidence awaiting an examination by the V Kishore Chandra Deo committee, which is looking into the scam.
Advani had on Sunday written to the Speaker demanding that the CDs be made public without any delay to enable people to come to a well-informed and fair conclusion after having watched the display of currency notes by three BJP MPs in the House. âPeopleâs right to information cannot be circumscribed in any manner,â he had said in his letter.
Along side, Advani maintained that the âinvestigation material pertaining to the whistle-blowing operation by our three MPs cannot be treated as the private property of the channelâ.
âHence, we urge you to ask the channel to share the entire unedited tape with the three MPs concerned immediately,â said Advani.
Citing the petition of the three BJP MPs before the Speaker, Advani said, âThey have also affirmed that CNN-IBN agreed to work with them in investigating the matter and sent a team that actually recorded almost the entire trail of the bribery operation.â
âThe details of the joint operation by them and the CNN-IBN team is attested by the three MPs in their petition to you,â he said. âIn any such investigation by a media organisation, the investigated material does not become a property of the investigator. It is held in trust for the public of India â its contents must be shared both with the people at large as well as with the whistle-blowers (in this case the three MPs), without whose permission and co-operation the channel could not have conducted the investigation,â said Advani.
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âThe channel had assured the whistle-blowers that the recorded tape would be telecast soon. However, this was not done. In any democracy, it would be the grossest impropriety if the whistle-blowers are let down by the media organisation that conducted the investigation.</b>
It is unfortunate that the TV channel is now treating the investigated material as its private property and has chosen to impose a mysterious self-censorship on itself,â Advani added.
Having said this, Advani raised doubts about the authenticity of the tape submitted to the Lok Sabha secretariat. He said âsoon afterâ the three BJP MPs had displayed the wads of current notes in the House, âthe channel had announced that it was in the possession of the tape and had handed it over to the Speakerâ.
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CNN-IBN said it has the right to air tape: Somnath to Advani
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/341620.html
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: The onus for telecasting the CDs containing footage of the supposed cash-for-vote scam now lies with news channel CNN-IBN following an exchange of letters between Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani.
According to senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, the Speaker, while leaving the decision of making the CDs public to the House committee constituted to look in to the scam, told Advani that the channel has claimed that it has the right to telecast the CDs whenever it wants. Swaraj said the Speaker has also said in the letter that the channel has copies of the CDs.
The channel, after refraining from telecasting the CDs, had voluntarily handed them over to the Lok Sabha secretariat. The CDs are among the evidence awaiting an examination by the V Kishore Chandra Deo committee, which is looking into the scam.
Advani had on Sunday written to the Speaker demanding that the CDs be made public without any delay to enable people to come to a well-informed and fair conclusion after having watched the display of currency notes by three BJP MPs in the House. âPeopleâs right to information cannot be circumscribed in any manner,â he had said in his letter.
Along side, Advani maintained that the âinvestigation material pertaining to the whistle-blowing operation by our three MPs cannot be treated as the private property of the channelâ.
âHence, we urge you to ask the channel to share the entire unedited tape with the three MPs concerned immediately,â said Advani.
Citing the petition of the three BJP MPs before the Speaker, Advani said, âThey have also affirmed that CNN-IBN agreed to work with them in investigating the matter and sent a team that actually recorded almost the entire trail of the bribery operation.â
âThe details of the joint operation by them and the CNN-IBN team is attested by the three MPs in their petition to you,â he said. âIn any such investigation by a media organisation, the investigated material does not become a property of the investigator. It is held in trust for the public of India â its contents must be shared both with the people at large as well as with the whistle-blowers (in this case the three MPs), without whose permission and co-operation the channel could not have conducted the investigation,â said Advani.
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âThe channel had assured the whistle-blowers that the recorded tape would be telecast soon. However, this was not done. In any democracy, it would be the grossest impropriety if the whistle-blowers are let down by the media organisation that conducted the investigation.</b>
It is unfortunate that the TV channel is now treating the investigated material as its private property and has chosen to impose a mysterious self-censorship on itself,â Advani added.
Having said this, Advani raised doubts about the authenticity of the tape submitted to the Lok Sabha secretariat. He said âsoon afterâ the three BJP MPs had displayed the wads of current notes in the House, âthe channel had announced that it was in the possession of the tape and had handed it over to the Speakerâ.
TRUTH ABOUT MEDIA @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEO4Rw9Z...re=related