Faris Shows Up Malayalam Journalism!

I watched the interview Faris Aboobacker gave to John Brittas in People Channel of Kairali TV with joy. For once the interviewee was in charge, completely dominating the proceedings and leaving the interviewer struggling to catch up and trying to make some feeble interjections! Also, Faris showed what Malayalam journalists are really worth - blasting them for not doing enough homework and for practicing armchair journalism. And in a not so subtle way Faris leveled the same charge against Brittas, who could not even parry Faris's pointed questions.
The interviewee was clearly calling the shots, and by far a better journalist than the interviewer!
Another piece I loved about it was Faris tearing up Mathrubhumi's self-professed right to take the moral high ground citing its history as a paper founded by nationalists against British colonial rule. Faris said what every impartial Malayali reader had on his mind while reading such lofty claims by Mathrubhumi's nameless journalists: Mathrubhumi cannot pride itself on that count because it is not the descendants of those nationalists who are running the paper now but people who were opposed to the Congress till before the emergency - that one should strike Veerendrakumar in the eye. Kudos!
And Mathrubhumi fumbled repeatedly in its attempt to bat for Chief Minister Achutanandan: claiming there is no photo of Faris in existence and that he is a mystery to people even in his home village, while the truth was one of the directors of Mathrubhumi was a close friend of Faris. The director went on to blast the paper for publishing such reports but the venerable editor thought it prudent to hide that!
Whatever be the merits or demerits of this case, I like this spat for two reasons: one Faris showed up Malayalam journalim; two, Veerendrakumar has ended up with egg on his face!