Dear friends, Mayabushan is unable to reach the end of the story as it is going more and more complicated matter and difficult to digest by a non-journalist or ordinary citizen.
This whole episode of Serial sexual harassment by a top anchor at a local cable channel, there is no progress but confusions. It appears to be going in full force but the general public is not been able to digest all what has been said because there is no head and tail with the matter. I can only predict or can guess who could be the anchor and who are the affected partners? But this is not the solution and I cannot divulge my guessing power. It will be better either file a FIR or a complain in writing in the adequate police station/organisation or owner of newspaper publication. it is not good to fire the bullets in the air if the target is known definitely by the writer? This post/ subject in Goanet continues for days together just like the Louis Berger bribery scam and both these cases appears to be important in nature The public is unable to digest or grasp what is going on, in both the cases. Everyone those who are involved are experts and they are safeguarding their interest and confusing the public and wasting our time finally all will be bailed out.. stephen A non journalist ------Message: 10 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 18:13:03 +0530 From: Mayabhushan <[email protected]> To: Mayabhushan <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Update IV: Serial sexual harassment by a top anchor at a local cable news channel Message-ID: <caa0bfj2_6hnxobcdxi2a_oc7hh+zt3g_c6vzdyys-swzf8a...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Update IV: Serial sexual harassment by a top anchor at a local cable news channel The serial sexual harassment case at the local cable news channel has taken a very disturbing turn over the last 48 hours. In response to posts on the serial sexual harassment in the cable news channel, I have been abruptly taken off a WhatsApp group run by the state BJP for journalists called 'BJP Goa' by the group's administrator. Following posting of similar messages on a WhatsApp group operated by the Goa Congress called 'Spokesperson GPCC', its administrator Sunil Kawthankar put out message saying such off-topic posts were unwelcome. This was the first caution made on the group against off-topic posts. Yet another group, 'Salcete Media Friends', knocked me off without an explanation to the members on the group on Thursday. I was called by the administrator Dinesh Sakhalkar on Thursday night, to strike a compromise with the anchor in question. I was dropped within minutes after I discouraged his drift. I was reinstated only after more than a score members on the group questioned Dinesh about why I was dropped and to fit me back in, which he eventually did late on Saturday. But he still has not explained why. What is top of the mind for me, this moment, is the manner in which the political class in Goa, across party lines, have, for now, chosen to close ranks behind a sexual pervert lurking in the sheltered shadows of the Goa media; a print media journalist and an anchor whose predatory instincts have affected as many as seven young women journalists since 2013. On whose instructions and at whose behest? And there are sexual harassments before that period, which haven't been delved into yet. How does the BJP explain why I have been dropped from the group? Many of my colleagues have expressed their support to me on the group seeking an explanation why the action was taken. Some have quit the BJP Goa group in protest, because no explanation has come by for nearly 7 hours. I called up state BJP president Vinay Tendular seeking an explanation at 1:37 pm today. He said it was ?not an official group? and that he would check with the administrator and get back to me on the subject. He still hasn't. When I asked Sunil Kawthankar, the administrator of the 'Spokesperson GPCC' WhatsApp group, about the timing of his post where he requested that off-topic issues should not be discussed, soon after my post on the serial sexual harassment episodes and if he was pressurised by someone to do it, he categorically denied the same. Political parties choosing to back tainted media representatives, whose services are 'invaluable' in times of elections or other crises is not new. But rarely have political parties here have so brazenly backed a sexual pervert in face of outrage from the more healthier and rational section of the media. While the backing from a section of the media fraternity has been a good thing and indicative of a still existing spine in the fraternity, several senior journalists continue to hold their cards close to their chest. Those riling and thriving on the regional language discourse, have still to speak; in their mother tongues or otherwise. While the Goa Union of Journalists has issued a notice through its general secretary for a meeting on the issue of sexual harassment in media offices here, its president Sadguru Patil, has not for once, come out in the clear about his position on the issue. His commitment to the issue needs to be seen and heard by the members of the organisation, as well as those victims, who still totter on the brink of uncertainty as far as registration of a complaint against the anchor is concerned. Sadguru and the senior editors also need to speak because colleagues who are sharing these posts or liking them are being asked by reporters from the same organisation lay off. What needs to be underlined here, is that the case has moved from being one isolated case of sexual harassment, to one which has multiple victims who have had to suffer similarly unchecked for more than one year. In the last post, we mentioned that seven young girls were subjected to this by one anchor in one organisation. This is perhaps just the tip of the iceberg. So if the media fraternity do not close ranks and fight this ill, we might as well drop our pants and offer our bottoms collectively. Mayabhushan P.S. One of my updates was altered without my permission or knowledge. Pls disregard if this piece is reproduced with alternations elsewhere P.P.S If anyone on this list wishes to discountinue future updates on the subject, pls do send a note across. Will ensure it does not happen so in the future. End of Goanet Digest, Vol 10, Issue 456 *************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
