Nine Years of Taking Aim at Umar Khalid, Media Style https://thewire.in/media/backstory-nine-years-of-taking-aim-at-umar-khalid-media-style/
Pamela Philipose long before the passage of the Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019, and the outrage it provoked, particularly among young Muslims, Big Media had already marked him out as someone who stood for everything to which the Hindutva right-wing and the media they controlled was viscerally opposed... Umar tried to argue that hanging Afzal Guru violated the norms of a democratic state and that the ‘India ka barabdi’ slogan was not put out by JNU students. But Goswami was having none of that: the programme ended with Umar being labeled as “anti-national” and “India-hating”.
Before long, doctored video footage showing him actually shouting slogans like ‘Bharat tere tukde honge’ appeared on Zee News ....
Arnab Goswami – now proprietor of Republic Television – brought out in October 22, the ‘Full Tukde Gang Files’. A quick perusal of this material tells you not just how horrifyingly insidious was the campaign against Umar Khalid – he was now named “mastermind of the Delhi violence” – but how closely television channels had come to work with the Delhi Police and buttress its narrative.
Pamela Philipose