Dear all
Many years before mainly after
the Prasar Bharati act and the liberalization of media, India witnessed, reverberation
of our fifth estate. In exposing corruption and building up of public opinion,
our media performed a stupendous task. Its role in building up public opinion
did have a positive effect on our public policy. However somehow on this route
something foul is taking place. Our Supreme Court have smelled the rot and have
asked the state government on how much an Investigating officer should brief
media on a criminal case and has asked for a report on this.
Let us take the most recent cases. Notwithstanding
the fact that Tarun Tejpal was alleged to have attempted to violate the modesty
of a junior colleague, the media houses was on a continuous tirade against the
magazine tehelka and its management. In our national media we could see a
crusade of self-interest. An opportunity for rival media houses to pounce on
the fallen hero, and a smooth revenge for a political party to settle their
scores. The victimized journalist’s molestation cry is far heard than the
brutal rape and murder of a north eastern women .Similarly an intern files complain
on her superior judge for sexual harassment after 11 months giving the right opportunity for the vested interest to
malign the credentials of an honorable judge who was critical about some
political party. The trial and judgment is already done by the media.
Media trails, character assassination
and defamation has now become the order of the day among the elite in India.
They are teaching the rest of the world the wonderful art of mud-slinging. In
an election year this also acts as cannon fodder to political rivals in
settling scores.
India’s public discourses have become a farce with any bedroom
news worth a sensation becoming national debates. Our media selected intelligentsia
is seen daily blabbering on gender and women’s right while ordinary women flock still out there suffering with the social evils of dowry death
, female infanticide and malnutrition . Our High net worth Intellectuals opine
and tweet their egos and is well cashed by the media and its cronies.
At a time
when India need to set a social and economic agenda for its future, this media masala
has stooped into an intellectual masturbation giving only them a one sided pleasure but making us the audience puke:
Sanyasi
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