The fourth pillar has become froth filler.
The government can clean the Ganges, even the oceans surrounding
the country but it cannot clean many of the existing media houses nor can it
afford to ignore it.
The most unfortunate thing
about media is that it is critical [important] component of a liberal democracy
but at the same time it is sickening if it is selectively critical [criticizing]
of any activity by specific individuals or institutions;
Never underestimate the scope of media mafia and meaningless
media trials. They use microscope, telescope, stethoscope and many more
depending on what they want to filter out or focus on. But remember
unfortunately they are the mass opinion molders because of their penetration
through idiot boxes.
I can enlist thousands of cases of their misuse through
selective amnesia and collective indifference to really vital issues and worthy
causes.
Their entire operations are biased and selective; they use
special filters and focus on scandalizing and sensationalizing every issue
while well ensconced in their air conditioned studios- these know all and self
proclaimed guardians of social welfare sit on judgment over everything and
everyone.
They debate with derision about judicial activism, police
excess, human rights violations, armed forces atrocities, corporate politician
nexus, political apathy to pressing issues [ presses whom and where?]. But they
strain their brains [if they have any] to find maximum vindications to Naxal
activities saying that the governmental indifference to tribal welfare has
birthed Naxals. They ensure, like the left politicians, to promote, if not
create a sense of victimhood to unleash their verbal venom and high pedestal
preaching towards the villains that they have already decided to portray or sometimes they scan for
villains.
They resort to diverting the attention of the whole nation
to very trivial issues, stray incidents in a vast geographical area like India,
silly comments by some personalities in some contexts, sting operations to
malign someone or some institution.
The media impatiently asks: - When we can expect judicial reforms?
When can we expect to rein in Government officers? When are we going to restructure
the financial sector? When are we going to make public sector accountable? But it has never asked when it is going to
become impartial? When it is going to become responsible? When it is going to
prioritize issues based on national importance? When it is going to report
about positive actions by individuals, institutions, government etc? When it is
going to learn about the various aspects of economic development of the nation?
When it is going to highlight activities taken in those directions etc?
Can media be ever expected to do this? Definitely not the majority
of them, why?
We need to know from where have these creatures in the media
have come? Why are they so biased? They [these media mafia] are also mostly
Indians born, educated and live out of this land but why are they
anti-national? Why they do not reflect even for a moment consciously that they
are doing a great disservice to the nation while self proclaiming as the voice
of the nation? Why are they above all not at all interested in the well being
of the nation and its citizens?
This may lead us to the whole bunch of disgruntled, ignored,
pseudo academically qualified bunch of youths misused by an outdated
ideological outfit.
What it is and where it is can be easily found from their
ideological identity fixation.
Before going into the
investigation I would like to mention a readily available text which will give a very
scholarly insight into why and how this ideological outfit has damaged the
nation’s progress and perpetuated poverty and ignorance as policy.
I wish every Indian to read a very important analysis of
India’s journey with all its positives and negatives post Independence which
undoubtedly was also impacted and influenced by the spillover effects of
pre-Independence policies. All these are well explained in this book- a very
scholarly research work with also a road map outlining the course correction
needed in various sectors of India for its economic growth, prosperity and
improved scenario for job creation etc. The book is ‘Getting India back on Track’.
What this apolitical research work never fails to
acknowledge is that most of the ills, negative trends, and economic
backwardness were the result of skewed policies of socialism with the concomitant
lack of integrity of its proponents, lack of conducive conditions for its
implementation and the care for reviewing its actual impact on the citizens
etc.
It is these very same Indian brand of leftists and so-
called socialist ideological elements though politically insignificant continue
to contaminate and dominate the social, ideological, cultural spaces indirectly
through a very powerful weapon called the media, mostly the audio visual media
in the form of a few English channels, most of which owe their loyalty to
foreign funders and some in the print media as well. They started this
enterprise to eke out a living and gradually enhanced into luxury loving lads
who now cannot get rid of their postures even if they are ideologically not in
favor of it.
Some of these media houses wash of their guilt of projecting
only the negative aspects and creating false victimhood by conducting a yearly
ritual [like the ceremonies performed to ancestors, whom we may not have
bothered to communicate to or to take care when they were alive, old and
longing for our attention] by conducting a much publicized awards function to
positive contributors in various fields. These rituals are like the items in
the attic, rarely used but reverentially kept aloft away from our sight.
While the book is ‘Getting India back on Track’ discusses
reforms and restructuring in various areas, it has left out media which is the biggest
stumbling block to India’s economic growth and real liberal democratic
institutions.
Reforms in this sector are not possible but flooding the media
space with more number of appealing, active, national interest providing media
houses is the need of the hour.
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