Brash Indian aims to challenge BBC
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INDIA’S brash TV news anchor Arnab Goswami, renowned for his hectoring style, is about to launch a new channel and he is unapologetic about what viewers should expect.
“I’m patriotic and nationalistic and so will the channel be,” he said. The 43-year-old regularly shouts at guests.
Goswami, known in India as “Arnab,”will launch “Republic TV” this month.
He is adored by many Indians for his jingoistic, anti-Pakistan views but is equally loathed by others, often on the left, who accuse him of noisily trumpeting a right-wing agenda.
Commentators also criticize him for promoting a biased approach to covering news, but Goswami is unrepentant, rejecting any notion that reporting should be balanced and impartial.
“When a Pakistani terrorist group kills my soldier, I shall not try to look at it through this distilled lens of objectivity ... I would say he was a terrorist and he has killed my country’s soldier. If that violates a few rules of journalism then I would like to violate a few more rules of journalism.”
The Oxford University graduate started his career at the Kolkata-based Telegraph in 1994. He has big plans for his new venture.
Goswami is confident of defeating what he calls the “Indian media cabal operating out of Delhi” by making Republic TV the most-watched English-language news channel in India. Then he will set his sights on media giants in the West. “I believe that the hegemony of the Western media has to end,” says Goswami,
“There has been too much of a Western dominance over English news media in the world. In the course of the next three or four years I am certain that I will correct it and I think the challenge to organizations like the BBC or CNN can only come from a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, vibrant, growing democracy like India.”
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