The Outlook carried a far more detailed version of the same story, with more audio clips attached. Open Magazine, in its on-line version, carried this story on the 18th of November – an action that promptly crashed the server. Yet there is a more or less media black out on the story – except for a few media companies. Its’ star cast is the whose who of Indian politics, media and business. It shows how names are dropped, reputations made & ruined, deals fixed, gossip passed on and deals are made. The voices in the tapes are allegedly hers and an A list of clients, contacts and confidants …. the Tapped Tapes/MP3’s – got submitted in the Supreme Court on the 15th of November – putting it in the public domain. The IT Department seeks Home Office permission to tap her phones. She also seems to be skirting the boundaries of legal behavior – vis-a-vis the third oldest crime in the world – Income Tax. Nira Radia is a lobbyist / PR person who has some fairly important clients. A story that shows how a Lobbyist managed to carry out corporate agenda by trading information and influence with journalists, industry bodies, politicians to fix political appointments, raise political outrage and fix the market vis-a-vis infrastructure.īut before that a synopis of the story so far: all the ingrediants of a pucca pot boiler. The New Media, on the other hand has been bubbling over with another story – the story that has all the ingredients of a Sidney Sheldon novel, meets a Robert Ludlum conspiracy along with a Balaji Soap Opera … garnished in with a bunch of unnamed honest men & women - who work from within the system to break the scam and expose the scamsters …. 2 G scam, Karnataka, Some Asian Games Medals, some vague stuff about Bihar… there would have been some level of smugness about Raja’s resignation, and the gloating that everyone was number one in breaking the story, some outrage on Adarsh, but pretty much that is it … as far as big stories are concerned. … … the media silence on the Radia Tapes is deafening …įor those of you watching and reading the Main Stream Media this week, life would be pretty much the same.
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