Questions, questions, questions and more questions.
What is the truth about Sushant’s death? (CNN News18); Case covered up after murder? (Times Now); Sushant’s death ‘normal’? (Republic TV); Where did Rhea get her money? (CNN News18); What is the ‘sly girl’s’ source of income? (India TV); Who’s behind Rhea’s machinery? (Republic TV); Rhea and Sushant Singh Rajput went on Europe holiday — what changed after that? (India Today); Why is Mahesh Bhatt quiet? (Times Now)
NewsNation said there were thousands of questions related to Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty.
Now it’s our turn to ask the questions. Here are five:
— Who will question the questioners?
— Who will question TV news anchors and reporters about the non-stop tabloid TV coverage of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, which has now clocked almost three weeks?
— Who will question their motives behind the character assassination of so many individuals who may or may not have a role to play in what may or may not be Rajput’s death by suicide?
— Who will question their right to play the police, the prosecutor, judge, jury and `journalist’?
— Who will hold them accountable?
Oh, and yes, one more: ‘#JusticeForRajput’ is the popular hashtag on channels like Republic TV and Times Now. But who will bring the likes of them to justice for all the injustices they have committed in the name of ‘Breaking News’?
Also read: Indians find the perfect villain in Rhea Chakraborty. It says more about India than her
The coverage is an injustice
From the most trivial pursuit of Rhea Chakraborty’s apparent fondness for clothes to the most serious charge of murder, there is nothing that news channels have not ‘exposed’. And they don’t care whether they will be proved right or wrong, eventually. They just want an ‘Explosive Exclusive’, in Times Now’s inimitable phrase.
From the TV cameras peering into the ambulance that carried Sushant’s body to the fake autopsies; from examining the green cloth found hanging in his bedroom that day to the photographs of his bruised neck in order to ‘prove’ that he wasn’t hanging; from doctors speculating on his possible depression to excerpts from his WhatsApp messages; from discussing the film producers and directors he worked with or those who supposedly ignored him to his cook, his friends, his former manager, his former girlfriend; from his films contracts, his financial status to his personal letter to his family; from video clips of him in his films to reconstructions of his life and his holiday in Europe last year where he allegedly had “hallucinations” — in the name of giving him ‘justice’, the news channels have stripped him of everything but his skin.
Rhea Chakraborty has been subjected to the same scrutiny, except that in her case it has been entirely negative and one-sided. News channels have only reported against her. There is not even a pretence of being objective here.
Everyone the channels have interviewed has been asked leading questions to implicate Rhea Chakraborty and her family. Her bank accounts have been scrutinised threadbare, her call data records have been examined – where Times Now found the initials ‘AU’ and then innocently said that Aditya Thackeray’s name had come up in the Supreme Court hearing.
We have read her WhatsApp messages, heard the questions she was asked by the Enforcement Directorate, the parties she attended, the “honey trap” she laid for Sushant Rajput, how she alienated his affections from his family, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. News channels have snapped up every morsel of information they could obtain from Sushant’s bereaved family and flung it at us, hoping we will gulp it down, hungrily.
Sushant Rajput’s manager Disha Salian, who also was declared to have died by suicide, has been dragged into the controversy – despite her parents’ pleas to the media to let her rest in peace. No such luck. News channels have been doing everything they can to establish a link between Sushant’s death and hers. No RIP for her nor for Sushant.
Also read: Aatma, autopsy, jadu—After Ayodhya, TV news went right back to magnificent Sushant obsession
Can the lawless be controlled?
We need to ask the news channels, the anchors and the reporters this: how did they gain access to call records, bank statements, post-mortem photographs, contracts, etc? Isn’t this an invasion of privacy? Isn’t it against the law? Are news channels allowed to name and defame anyone they choose to with impunity?
Can they simply look someone in the face and declare them depressed or not depressed? Can they conduct fake autopsies and decide the cause of death
Who will ask them these questions on behalf of decency, if nothing else? More significantly, who will answer for all that is being perpetrated in the name of news?
The unfortunate answer is no one.
And so the film hero, the ‘outsider’ who became a superstar surpassing expectations, has been reduced to a victim of Rhea Chakraborty, her ‘machinery’ by news channels chasing viewership ratings at any cost. Who’s next?
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what is this? Assuming you have some IQ, you want questions should not be asked and quietly let the case settle down?
Disgusting – theprint, stop this nonsense.
well , it has been more than 45 days, any common man can say this is a mystery death and not suicide, wll common sense isn’t that common!! We the people wanna know the truth, we want justice, so when the investigators where lagging, nd the media exposed it to the public, how dare you blame the media?? It isn’t there job to investigate, yes true, but when those who are responsible to bring out the truth, themselves are not doing it, poor media, what can it do other than expose this truth?, you blame the media, for standing with truth?? Shame on you!! Nd this so called” print”, is this what is known as good journalism?? What good have you done, other than screaming fake news, circulating ‘Shravan Kumar’ stories, let me ask you the same question you asked? Were you a part of ssr’s family to write such rubbish?? Come on ,show some mercy ya, some humanity, is it too much to ask for?? Nd you know what ,it isn’t the media which is one-sided it is the truth. No matter how many times you circulate fake stories it’ll not turn true!! #justiceforssr
Atleast they have have the courage to speak up against the conspira y of #MahaGovt.
It is understood that you guys believe in चाटु पत्रकारिता ut you should atleast repe t the ones who are trying to get #JusticeForSushantSinghRajput .
Have you sold your soul as well?!
Yesterday it was #Jia today it is #Disha & #SushantSi ghRajput tomorrow there could be anyone , you or your son/daughter/wife/brother/sister etc.
This. Ase is the most important in the Indian History because it’s not only about #SSR it’s about billion indian dreams who see themselves in #SSR.
Have some dignity towards humanity and stop doing your चाटु पत्रकारिता to please your #BollywoodMafia bosses.
Excellent article on the dangerous circus being played out in the name of journalism in Indian Media. Shocked to see journalists, who are just supposed to report facts, turn judge and accuse people in a matter which is sub-judice. Free speech comes with responsibility!
You are a part of Rhea’s Paid Media 🙂
We don’t support your journalism. Though agreed that the coverage of the case has been deplorable but had it not been for the media presence which in turn is perhaps being driven by the need to cater to what a huge section of the audience wants to see and talk about, this case would have just been forgotten after the customary ‘RIP’ s. Yes i admit a lot of people die everyday and a lot of people fail to have justice. But how hard is it to understand that this guy, SSR he represents every common man’s dreams of working hard and reaching the skies. For him to have met such a fate, it has been heartbreaking and confusing for all of us. And please don’t just waive this off as how his death should have been made an example of how important it’s to talk about mental health. Sure it’s very important, but isnt it important to uncover the entire truth. Because what example does his death give to anyone who’s struggling with mental maladies..that this guy who seemingly had everything and even went to a bevy of psychiatrists failed to recover from his disease ..and perhaps it’s even normalising suicide ..that perhaps there’s no cure to depression and the only way out is to choose the way of suicide. Isnt it really curious as to how a smart man like him who even though may have been diagnosed with some mental condition, choose the way of suicide despite having sought the medical care amd definitely must have been well read on the subject where everyone talks about how there’s a way to manage these diseases. Now again anyone might say that even this comment seems to get into the conjectures and theories floating around. But point is the media attention is required because what plagues our society is perhaps a lot of evil doers think the public memory is very short and after a few days of uproar everyone will forget about it and hence they can get away with it. SSR needs justice and i ask this because every common man needs justice. He represents all of us..all our aspirations. And to people like rajdeep Sardesai and majeed memon(oops) and Sharad Pawar and that shiv sena Raut. If you can’t help, don”t add to the family’s woes.
Non Sense. As if The Print does all right. All of you want to make atory out of shushants
death. Let police, CBI and court decide what happen, You, Tv Anchors do not judge anyone guilty. If Rhea does the mistake she has to face law why are you have to decide who are right or wrong .. Strangely in your article you have not questioned irregularities and people you just decide its a sucide with out even police completed their investigation.. sorry all the media just want to sell story of sushant .. none of u want to think abt his family
I frequently used to donate money to the print but after seeing your anti SSR stance, I will not pay even 1 rupee going forward to the print.
Arey sharm karo, Arnab is fighting for the justice of SSR and u guys are abnormal.
This article is bullshit. Such pseudo intellectual people should appreciate that when a the police machinery is compromised, questions need to be asked. Defamation proccedings are availabe to people in case they are being slandered.
Nobody knows the truth neither do you nor do other journalist but bringing out all the points is necessary. Whenever any investigation is done you think of all the possibilities. If police would have done the investigation properly we would had some results by now.
Also, I am sure bollywood mafia would have paid you to write such articles. So stop taking the side where there is no clarity.
There is truth which is not out and we want to know how our favourite actor died.
Oh god please not again . How do we block and report such pages
How much did she pay you to write this ?
What you’re saying is wrong on so many levels. The irony is you guys are doing the same thing, but on an opposite end. You have no clue what the uproar is all about and Oh we’re glad we have Republic and Times Now supporting us. Oh and about feeling bad for someone who in first place asked for CBI and then refused it. I can only imagine. You can post articles like BJP using SSR to destabilise Maha Govt and that’s absolutely fine? Here you aren’t defaming anybody? Here it’s about right or wrong and we can clearly see you being empathetic for the wrong reasons. You taking names of Times and Republic isn’t defaming there ethics of journalism is it? Hypocrisy at its peak.
No one will support your journalism after reading your trash articles.
Even here mob will be after you. You can’t deny them voyeuristic pleasures.
In ED enquiry your name has come up for publishing against SSR and in favor of Rhea qwho contacted “friends in media” to make her good image and weaken the channels who are digging evidences against her…….now will u shut up and apologise to the public , The Print? Is any shame left in you morons?
I don’t c anything wrong with the tv channels asking the question. There are so many lapses in the investigation done by Mumbai police. What have they achieved so far ? R they sleeping? Why no track on the phone calls or the money spent of Sushant account?
One question
Why are you critising the news channel.who brought out the truth or else the case would have been dismissed as suicide by the so called ‘very able’ mumbai police.
The correct question to be asked is why was investigation not done properly and also how Rhea Chakarobarty afford such an expensive lawyer. Yes we need answers for that.
One advice : Stop writing such articles. I was avid follower of your news but the way you are writing such articles..shows that you are definitely getting paid to do all of this..
What is wrong with The Print? The recent articles have been nothing but baseless and derogatory towards Sushant’s family. And you want to question them?.Please have some shame. A father has lost his only son. I wonder who’s PR agent is writing this article to whitewash a certain person’s image. And as far as media trials are concerned, there’s a reason why everyone is against a particular person. Evidence and facts. And as for invasion of privacy. Go get some facts about Susan Walker, who has leaked all the details of Sushant’s therapy to a popular journalist in an interview. But no you won’t cover that. You want to endorse a particular celebrity and “question the questioners”. And stop fighting for “Justice for Rhea”. It’s Sushant Singh Rajput who has lost his life .Please get some good authors ,The Print. I have seen a downhill trend in your journalism and it’s mind-achingly foolish to read such articles
Very smart move but not smart enough , to whosover has written this article:all this speculations are made because mumbai police did not do the basics right , straightaway declaring suicide, not registering an FIR etc etc.
There is also a stream of educated force behind this so please do not manipulate things. If you really want things to be ethical, direct your questions towards ruling party and the police in Maharashtra.
If such media trials would not have been there, the case might have been shut long way back.
And this article isn’t nothing but a shit right from the start till end.
Your page has been writing nothing but rubbish in the name of Journalism. I am an educated citizen of the country and I can’t be manipulated only on the basis of what the news channels are reporting. If millions of people are blaming Rhea Chakroborty then probably there is a reason behind it. And if you can’t see that reason and want to ruthlessly keep posting rubbish about Sushant and his family, then you are the one who needs to be questioned, not the News channels.
What is wrong with The Print? The recent articles have been nothing but baseless and derogatory towards Sushant’s family. And you want to question them?.Please have some shame. A father has lost his only son. I wonder who’s PR agent is writing this article to whitewash a certain person’s image. And as far as media trials are concerned, there’s a reason why everyone is against a particular person. Evidence and facts. And as for invasion of privacy. Go get some facts about Susan Walker, who has leaked all the details of Sushant’s therapy to a popular journalist in an interview. But no you won’t cover that. You want to endorse a particular celebrity and “question the questioners”. And stop fighting for “Justice for Rhea”. It’s Sushant Singh Rajput who has lost his life .Please get some good authors ,The Print. I have seen a downhill trend in your journalism and it’s mind-achingly foolish to read such articles
Anyone reading this comment….. This is Paid Journalism guys, the author has no idea that her views would be simply put into garbage without even reading the article. Call it a personal vendetta or TRP campaign, Arnab & Ujjwal Trivedi are washing the dirty linen in the public, with solid proof out there. This is the only way to pressurize our lame institutional organizations.
In Jiah’s case, there wasn’t any coverage by Media. And look how it ended up, her old mother is still fighting to get her justice. Atleast in Sushant’s case, we know the loopholes and inconsistent versions of truths shared by suspects. If Republic Media hadn’t raised the voice, we would had to remember Sushant as a depressed man who died for no reason at all.
Some television news channels have become bolder and now they air fake news to the viewers with impunity. Freedom of expression is fully exploited by these few channels and there is competition among them to garner TRP .It is a worrisome sign because lies are fed deliberately to the vulnerable viewers and the consequences are dangerous at times. It is imperative that the Editor guild of India should try to discipline such erring channels and it’s high time the judiciary clearly defines the red line between freedom of expression and spreading of lies or fake news which can lead to social unrest or character assassination of others. The court also need to address the defamation cases with all sincerity as they linger on for years together.Swift justice on such cases will discourage such the news anchors from spreading fake news.If we don’t put a check on this, fake news will destroy our society.
If they have done character assassination without proof then the victims should take legal course and file defamation suit against each TV channel responsible for it. They must be made to pay such amount that they will have to think 10 times next time.
In the name of ethical news Shekhar Gupta , founder of The Print disclosed on his youtube channel the beautiful secrets of award ceremonies , name dropping prominent celebrities like the Akthars and the Roshans, bitched about how KJo and co boycotted the awards bcoz their film My name is Khan didnt win best film award, how ZNMD crew boycotted the awards for similar reason, how Hrithik didnt want to accept best actor award for Krish just bcoz his father didnt win best director award.Shekhar Gupta even went on to elaborate how he had to take painstaking efforts to call each party and coax them with his words, how he had to work so hard to make the awards a success without disappointing anybody and how his friendship with Javed Akthar came to his rescue as finally at the last minute Farhan Akthar decides to attend the awards.So, now talking about “Rules violated in the name of breaking news”, i just want to say to The Print that they are really good adherents of the latest religion in the 21st century “Hypocrism”, where u swear to be a hypocrite and follow double standards according to what suits u and ur agenda the best.Well done The Print , u might just get the award for the best hypocrite ever in history.
Let the truth come out atleast. The national rage has been created due to the media . The police hasn’t done anything except destroying evidences.It’s quite clear that The Print doesn’t want the truth to come out in any case
Let the truth come out atleast. The national rage has been created due to the media . The police hasn’t done anything except destroying evidences.It’s quite clear that The Print doesn’t want the truth to come out
Republic bharat and times now are showing tge facts which you guys dont have any audocity to do you are so curious to know where RB, TImes now got an information but looking the facts which they are showing about rhea nad her family you are ignoring that, family is supporting them but no you guys want to prove them wrong just because you have no relevant informatiom to post ,i suggest you guys if you are not supporting atleast dont post nonsense atticles just to get noticed. Which you are now ….
It’s the job of the media to show the truth. This case is similar to the Sheena Bora murder case.
Looks like shailaja bajpai has soft corners for all the criminals involved?
I don’t find Republic TV covering his death as unlawful. It is because of these channels atleast people know it is a murder. Nobody is stupid , even Sridevi is murdered too just like tharoor’s wife.
What exactly you are annoyed about? Rhea been targeted? She should be because of all the money she has enjoyed sucking out of him. I am not trying to prove sushant as innocent boy. The only thing is his dead body doesn’t look like as if he killed himself. Its a murder and he has strings connected to Dishas case.
If there are no connections then why not answer people? There are so many valid not answered.
i understand you are a paid media like masand and chopra and can’t tolerate Arnab and others but you know we choose to ignore your concern because you don’t want truth to come out. You are annoyed because these channels are gaining all the footage. That’s your problem.
Lady, you have an option – Switch off your TV or change the channel, simple isn’t it ?
Hello, are you the paid advertisement? Paid by the sources who exactly want to spread this 🙂 and oh.. the comments are closed .. we know why 🙂
Then, Who will question Mumbai police and Mumbai Government? Who didn’t even registered FIR, Announced it a sucide without any probe and was making it very difficult for others to investigate?
One question why police declare suicide without any FIR or investigation? Why no FIR registered even after 2 months? No post mortem report in both cases and scene doesn’t have any forensic photographs! Cctv cameras are off around in both cases.
Do you not find the way the Mumbai police handling the matter, both Disha and Sushant murder cases, to be ambiguous?
No comments on that?
I heard someone is paying media outlets to write articles in favour of Reha and clear her image. Anyways Mumbai police initially said it was a suicide, even a normal person can say that things are not adding up. Although i don’t expect fair journalism from you guys, I’ve seen the interview of Shekhar Gupta after 2019 election. Your credibility is doubtful. Thank you
The real issue is, Why it is so difficult to get justice for Sushant? Instead of finding fault with News Channels, appreciate them for the efforts they have made to uncover the mysterious death. As a citizen of India, I want justice for Sushant.
Awesome news keep going
Shamelessness is so much glaring in your article. People will make the choice of avoiding Print articles. Either you are lily-livered or perhaps you have sold yourself, the latter of which is a mark of the shamelessness you portray.
I have only one question, did you see pics of dead body of Sushant’s and do you think it as murder or suiside?????
What difference in u ?
So again the big shots have filled your mouths with money..Can see that!
So what is that you ppl want to say about sushants death there should not be furthering in the investigation of this care
When mumbai police is trying to bury the case and favouring culprits. Then what option left with common men.
It is same, like you did 20 years continuously with one person and still doing.
Every time there is a heinous/ well planned systematic / brutal crime where govt/ police doesn’t fathom the public emotions, helplessness and cry for justice … media has to step in. People who question the questioners are afraid of the answers – at least thats what science and evidence teaches. If Mumbai police would have interrogated Rhea the way ED has brought our or some Medici legal experts have pointed out evidences .. media could have focused on other issues
It is same, like you did 20 years continuously with one person and still doing.
If those who are supposed to do the investigation had done their job, the media wouldn’t have to do somebody else’s job. Right?
Worst Article ever Read !