The Twitterati wants to know

How times change! Times Now, the news channel that has pursued the Sushma Swaraj-Lalit Modi controversy with vigour, and its editor Arnab Goswami, were lauded by many on Twitter for the channel's determined follow-up of such news stories - the Commonwealth Games scam and 2G spectrum scam during the United Progressive Alliance years. But the news channel and its editor no longer enjoy the same respect among Bharatiya Janata Party sympathisers on the micro-blogging site ever since Sunday. On Tuesday, one of the most trending hashtags was #TraitorTimesNow. The tweets ranged from abusive to anachronistic. Sample this tweet by @thekernelspeaks: "Shame on u @TimesNow For Keeping Mum when @INCIndia shamelessly helped Murderer W. Anderson Escape." That, incidentally, was way back in 1984 - about two decades before the news channel was launched.