The Print of Shekhar Gupta has turned one. The wannabe’s anniversary won’t make for headline news. But it deserved scrutiny given the fact that Coupta (his popular avatar on social media, thanks to the infamous coup story planted by Shekhar in Indian Express during Chidambaram’s time) has a penchant for mostly rolling half-baked lies and anti-establishment opinion masqueraded as news. Gupta’s media venture has been in the eye of the storm for a number of such controversial, opinionated and agenda-driven stories.
Here is a list of The Print’s top achievements of the year as tweeted by Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi). We reproduce the list from the thread for Rashtradhara’s readers…
Congratulations to @ShekharGupta’s ‘The Print’ for turning one. Here’s a report card. Of course, I’m sure we missed some achievements of the past one year, but this list I’m about to tweet is quite indicative of the portal’s stellar performance
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When The Print maligned @anuraag_saxena and IPP, and Anuraag hit back https://t.co/YVNYAQEzqW
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When Shekhar Gupta got a converted Christian to write about Rajput pride. https://t.co/oo4Ul058WQ
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When Taslima Nasreen blamed The Print and Shekhar Gupta for twisting her words on Hindu extremism https://t.co/7bJfzqaAMi
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When The Print blatantly lied about Doklam. https://t.co/jBldb3x4Dk
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When The Print twisted a simple issue and misled its readers about IIT-B promoting “Brahmanical notions of food practices” https://t.co/UFxeBJVcob
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
The lady accused of casteism by ‘The Print’ lashes out at the hit job, calls it ‘sick journalism’https://t.co/OpISvIJOsL
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
And they lied about Doklam… again https://t.co/m2EduF1S4z
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When The Print turned the issue of open defecation into a Hindu-Muslim issue https://t.co/EeJdkXZdsc
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
The Print reported that Smriti Irani wanted to track journalists with the help of RFIDs. A denial by the ministry was published. But who cares?https://t.co/gWjwEI79qK
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
Chetan Bhagat slams Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint for lack of ethicshttps://t.co/AFVNhs3Ui6
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When The Print republished an article from the Dawn that spoke about how disastrous it would be if Modi was the first PM of India instead of Nehru. An article which was hilarious coming from a Pakistani. https://t.co/xoIYaHymh3
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
As Shekhar Gupta’s ‘The Print’ romanticises treason, here is why Madhuri Gupta is being sent to prisonhttps://t.co/ROpUBIvygO
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When Shekhar ji chose to overestimate Maoists, just so he could undermine Modi https://t.co/yhgRytyvJ5
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When the Indian Army condemned The Print’s factually inaccurate report where it had claimed that the Army wrote a note that Army feared US could leak data to Pakistan if India-US sign military secrecy pacthttps://t.co/iwwVkHVrDX
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
Where even Congress had to deny a report by The Print. Lol https://t.co/r68ly5vBmd
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When the TRAI chief crossed swords with ‘The Print’ for misquoting him on the Aadhaar privacy normshttps://t.co/1Yx7e2J0G5
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
Shekhar Gupta, the divider : From caste to religion https://t.co/wRXlNfFctH
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
Where Shekhar Gupta saw caste in Lalu’s conviction https://t.co/D8Of8gR95O
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When a bunch of teenagers defended themselves against the influential https://t.co/dwLucCCkXh
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
Journalists slammed for their distasteful tweets about children’s deaths in Gorakhpur. Gupta ji was one of them. https://t.co/ar3X8VYlUe
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
When Gupta ji too used the Kerala floods to whip up North-South divide. https://t.co/oO9gstKuXH
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
There are more. We couldn’t chronicle every achievement of the President of Editor’s Guild and his portal, The Print. We will work harder henceforth 🙏
— Nupur (@UnSubtleDesi) August 20, 2018
