While interviewing Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday, Times Now anchor Navika Kumar tried to wrongly quote Salman Khurshid, an advocate and a senior Congress leader whom she had interviewed a few days ago.
Quoting Khurshid, Kumar said that Sonia Gandhi will play a major role in attracting other political parties for an alliance, instead of Rahul Gandhi. However, Kumar then attributed her own thoughts to Khurshid – that Rahul Gandhi didn’t have the stature and victories to convince opposition parties.
Her sleight of hand did not fool Scindia who asked if those really were Khurshid’s exact words. At first, Kumar tried to pass it off as a quoted statement but when Scindia questioned her again, she admitted that those were, in fact, not Khurshid’s words. Scindia then cautioned her that as a journalist, she should know better than to club a quote and her own deductions “very conveniently”.
Watch the interaction here:
.@navikakumar gets a crash course in 'Journalism 101' by @JM_Scindia
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— Saral Patel (@SaralPatel) July 8, 2018
In Abraham Lincoln’s words, You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Navika failed to fool Scindia and is now looking rather foolish.