Social media has been the greatest leveller in 2015. Earlier, access to the high and mighty in media was all but impossible for an average Indian. But now, anybody can open a Twitter account, and engage with any journalist. Sure, most of the times the journalist will not respond, in fact the chances that he will read your views are also very less. But there are some occasions when your reply is so witty that it smacks the journalist in the face and earns you lots of kudos from the other twitter users. Presenting some of these epic moments from 2015, when journalists got flogged on Twitter for being uninformed, petty and sometimes just illogical:
It was February and the Government in Delhi changed and with it some people like Sagarika Ghose changed their views too:
We also had Sagarika’s ex-colleague, Bhupendra Chaubey bat for Arvind Kejriwal very bravely
Later we heard an innovative way of defending frauds and scams, from Shekhar Gupta. Move aside Mr Zero Loss Sibal
Soon, in line with Digital India, Journalists began getting schooled on Technology:
And some terrorists have no religion:
And this “troll” reminded Sagarika of the time when she called APJ Abdul Kalam “Bomb Daddy”
This parody handle had just the right suggestion for Rajdeep Sardesai:
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Sagarika Ghose trolled again:
And we are still awaiting a reply from Rahul Kanwal
And this time it was the turn of Rajdeep Sardesai along with his wife. This was some high level trolling at its very best. Check out the words spelt out by the first letters of the tweets
And Barkha Dutt joined the party. To be honest, she asked for it here, since she wasnt even tagged, and got promptly reminded of her own past when she silenced Chaitanya Kunte
And this tweet captured the two Saba Naqvis brilliantly
Zaka Jacob might be a greenhorn on TV, but he could put spin stalwarts like Sagarika to shame:
And as Barkha Dutt’s Book got launched, so did a spate of trolling incidents:
Talk about “Order-Wapasi”
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And if you thought only “jobless trolls” gave it back to journalists, think again. We had some journalists and writers to
When a journalist played “Inception” with Barkha Dutt:
Rana Ayyub could well give the terrorist point of view
And when Barkha Dutt had a Twitter melt-down
And a bit of self bragging now, we too went after our favourite journalists:
When Rajdeep Sardesai attempted fact checking (We are still waiting for a response)
Synchronised Tweeting anyone?
Did we miss anyone? Do leave such incidents which we missed, in the comments section.