A Hard Time To Be A Journalist?

Brut India

Journalist Rakshit Singh faced many questions and allegations after he publicly quit his job at a farmers' protest. He explains why he did so even with EMIs to pay.

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00:00But in today's date, what kind of an overall media environment has been created?

00:04I don't need to tell you this, you all know it.

00:06In all the channels where the slogans of Murdabad and Godi media are used,

00:13I can't live in that environment, I can't be a part of that environment.

00:24Friends, Namaskar. I am Rakshit Singh.

00:28Many of you must be watching my video today.

00:32There are many things and talks about it.

00:36What I said on that stage, how some people are interpreting it,

00:42some are misinterpreting it, some are talking about my organization,

00:48some are talking about my future planning.

00:51There are many such questions, so I want to clarify those questions here.

00:57First of all, my organization, where I work,

01:02what I said there,

01:06it is overall pinpointed towards any one institution,

01:10not towards a single organization or a single channel.

01:16It is for everyone.

01:17The overall environment that has been created at this time,

01:25now you will say that you are trying to change the topic.

01:30It is not like that.

01:31I will tell you my mental state,

01:35how it has been for the last 2-3-4 months.

01:39When news channels used to go for coverage,

01:42before now, they used to be respected.

01:47A big reason behind choosing this profession was the same respect.

01:53When I did a journalism course,

01:56seeing that respect,

01:58I decided to choose this profession and chose this profession.

02:05That respect has disappeared in today's date.

02:08We go into the field,

02:10many times situations, all the organizations,

02:13in front of their reporters,

02:15these situations arise that they have to remove their ID.

02:20Channels, where the slogans of Murdabad are used,

02:25the slogans of Godi Media are used,

02:27then how will the work be done in this situation?

02:31I could not do it.

02:34I could not do that work.

02:36I tolerated it as long as I could.

02:39I work in a media organization.

02:41I have worked in media organizations before this.

02:44The kind of work I did in the last 10-12 years,

02:48I was personally very satisfied with that.

02:52I was very happy.

02:53Yes, the news that I do,

02:55apart from doing a little bit of right and left,

02:58everything else goes in the same way.

03:00But in today's date,

03:01what has the overall media environment become?

03:04I don't need to tell you this.

03:05You all know.

03:06I cannot live in that environment.

03:10I cannot be a part of that environment.

03:13That is why I took this step.

03:15Now the second question comes,

03:18why not there?

03:19Why not there?

03:20Why not on that border?

03:21Why not on that border?

03:22There are all kinds of questions like this.

03:24So where I have gone to cover,

03:26where I have been told to cover,

03:29it is obvious that if I take this step,

03:31it will be taken there.

03:34Maybe I got the answer to this question.

03:37Now after this, a third aspect comes.

03:41Will you become a politician?

03:43Will you become a MLA?

03:46Brother, I know journalism,

03:50which I have done in the last 14-15 years.

03:53And maybe I would like to do the same journalism in the future.

03:59Not against anyone,

04:00not biased against anyone,

04:02not against anyone,

04:03not in opposition to any government,

04:05not in favor of anyone.

04:07But the facts,

04:09the ground reality,

04:10what is visible with the eyes,

04:11what people are saying,

04:12what people are saying,

04:14I will report that.

04:16And that is what I want to report.

04:17And that is journalism.

04:20Taking anyone's side,

04:22whether it is any party,

04:25any party,

04:26that is not my job.

04:27If I see anything wrong happening in the farmer's movement,

04:31then it is obvious that I will report that too.

04:38Facts are reported.

04:40This is our job.

04:41Making an opinion is not my job.

04:43Opinion is made by the public.

04:46Viewers make it.

04:47Readers make it.

04:49Making an opinion is not my job.

04:51Now comes the third question.

04:53What will you do in the future?

04:56Brother, I am a middle class man.

04:59I also have the burden of EMI.

05:01I have a small two-room house.

05:04I have to pay EMI for that too.

05:06If I can't pay,

05:07then after 2-3 months,

05:08it will be 4 feet.

05:10I have a car.

05:12I have to pay EMI for that too.

05:14If I can't pay that,

05:16then they will take that too.

05:18In such a situation,

05:19you tell me yourself,

05:20what is the alternative in front of me?

05:23The alternative is that

05:24the work that I know,

05:26the work that I have been doing for 15-14 years,

05:29I will do that work.

05:31I don't have any agenda other than this.

05:34I don't have any hatred for anyone.

05:40No, whatever it is,

05:41it is my own decision.

05:43What do I have to do?

05:45I didn't want to be a part of this system.

05:52Now I was not able to continue beyond this.

05:54So what do I do?

05:55What is the alternative in front of me?

05:57I can leave it.

05:59I left it.

06:00Now according to me,

06:01there is no scope to put if and but in this.

06:04I have clarified almost everything.

06:06If there are any other questions,

06:08I will clarify that too.

06:09But in general,

06:10I have to say that

06:11the work that I have been doing,

06:13I only know that work.

06:15Other than this,

06:16I don't know any other work.

06:17Neither can I do business,

06:18that I have money,

06:19I can do business.

06:20Nor can I do politics,

06:22that I have a lot of experience in politics,

06:25I can do that.

06:26Or I can become a very big mass leader.

06:29Or I can create a very big movement.

06:32No.

06:33With my inner voice,

06:37in today's date,

06:38only my profession,

06:40that work,

06:41that talent,

06:42which I know,

06:43in which I have taken experience,

06:45which is by choice,

06:46not by force.

06:48I will continue that only.

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