TOI responds to Deepika Padukone’s post on Twitter

In a featured article, titled “Dear Deepika, Our Point of View”, TOI has defended their actions on the alleged news story centered around Deepika’s cleavage showing video.

This absurd news story, sparked off a set of controversy, where the actress was deeply saddened by the news and she came up with a strong message on facebook about the incident.

On Friday, Deepika wrote on FB: “A character may demand that I be clothed from head to toe or be completely naked, and it will be my choice as an actor whether or not I take either. Understand that this is a ROLE and not REAL,and it is my job to portray whatever character I choose to play convincingly”.

In reply, TOI wrote on Sept 22, “Deepika, we accept your reel vs real argument, but what about all the times, and there have been many, when you have flaunted your body off screen — while dancing on stage, posing for magazine covers, or doing photo ops at movie promotional functions?”

“What ‘role’ do you play there? So why the hypocrisy? What’s equally hypocritical is that several media outlets have freely displayed Deepika’s cleavage even as they sounded all outraged on her behalf. Surely they could have reported the story without those pictures?”

Countering this argument, TOI responded by claiming that Deepika is a hypocrite as she readily flaunts her body on dance shows, magazines etc. Thus, the newspaper seeks to prove that they have the right to zoom onto her cleavage because she is fine with showing it off in real life too.

TOI, in an attempt to overshadow their wrongdoing are coming up with various strategies to defend the image of their company.
However, this incident has only revealed the lack of ethics which is governing the world of Journalism in today’s world.

In the name of journalism, the newspaper has created a sensational headline with the idea to rope in viewers and thereby misleading them to a direction which is far far away from the objective of journalism.