I’m a journalist. I don’t like the status quo. Most journalists like the status quo. Journalists should hate the status quo. This country, which has given you the democracy to break every shackle and, for more than 70 years of India, has told every journalist, go break the rules, the journalists of this country have been the most status quoist part of our system, and I wonder why.
Former Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was one of the speakers at India Ideas Conclave 2016 .At the event, Goswami articulated passionately his vision for the future of Indian journalism. He started by criticising his fraternity.
Adopting one of the sub-themes of the conclave, ‘dissent’, Goswami spoke of his desire to dissent against journalism as it operates today and possibly give it a new place.
I chose 10 years back, ‘I don’t want to be part of your system’, and that is why I talk about Lutyens Delhi, not with any disregard to the city, but with the determination that in the next three to four years, we will take the centre of journalism in this country outside of Lutyens Delhi.
Without being geographical, he said,
If journalism is to thrive and actually help the people of the country, it must be forced out, cranked out of Delhi, operate from Poona, Bangalore, anywhere but Delhi.
He spoke of the wave of change that will shake up journalism in the future. Watch out the full video here.
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