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Friday , November 20, 2009 at 22 : 09

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They entered the place...attacked the building security guards first...then came running onto the seventh floor office of IBN Lokmat. Attacked the private security guards with baseball bats and iron pipes. Shattered the glass entrances, broke the LCD TV screens. Man-handled the employees they found on the way...all the time crying out slogans and abusing editor Nikhil Wagle and the IBN Network.

They then slapped Nikhil Wagle and what then started was a retaliatory fight between the Shiv Sainiks and the IBN Lokmat employees.

The editorial and technical staff of IBN Lokmat managed to nab seven of the attackers and handed them over to the Police.

Simultaneous, planned attacks were carried out on our IBN Pune office and the Lower Parel office too was threatened..!... All this for reporting against the comments by Balasaheb Thackeray of the Shiv Sena.

Where is the Freedom of the PRESS..?

Here's a photo story of the condition post the mayhem....

Posted by George Koshy |45 comments

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Collapse Posted 2009-11-24 16:13:50 : By rohitchy

it is not fault of our politician who do all this thins but it is our law which is unable to punish them .a person kill other comes to murder but a person who is responsible for deth of thousand booked under rioting. no one can stop thease things until the law do not get changes. ...Reply

Collapse Posted 2009-11-21 22:53:14 : By georgekoshy

Sir I'm a very junior journalist to be commenting/replying to this specific statment of your's sir, but frankly sir at no level have I in any ways over the years that I have spent in two seperate media organisations in teh english space....ever felt this bias. there are times when certain stories are played-up but this generally is only at the level of bringing attention to that incident / attrocity and without any specific bias against any religion / community or individual.

rgrds ...Reply

Collapse Posted 2009-11-21 22:50:47 : By georgekoshy

Sir for years most of us have been subdued in the manner in which we we have dealt with these political parties for the very same reason. there are innumerable instances where journalists are singled out or random journalists of specific media houses are targeted by political goons for the stories done on their respective channels/publications.

Now, we are a media organization and it is absolutely impossible that individual journalists could be protected at all times. What happens then....what if a few of these chaps follow me home or manhandle me on my way home..?

And finally when some media organization does raise it's voice....the results are truly before your eyes..!! ...Reply

Collapse Posted 2009-11-21 22:45:59 : By georgekoshy

The CM has promised to make an attack on the fourth estate....as much a cognizable offence as it would be if a civil servant or a doctor would be..Also, assurances of taking stringent action on not only the local boys behind the attack but also on the larger perpetrators who instigated and sent them forward....words words....Hope they mean something at some level..! ...Reply

Collapse Posted 2009-11-21 22:43:23 : By georgekoshy

The problem arises 'coz every party heeds to these kinds of violence at sometime or the other in their political growth sphere....so it's truly a question of who's the cleaner/uglier of the lot..? ...Reply

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