21 Points to
reflect and repair the Main Stream Media’s lost dignity.
1. Impartiality and sanity can bring back the lost dignity to the main
stream media [MSM] and not any specific identity.
I am placing here many links.
Each one explains some facet[s] of media’s roles, responsibilities and
rottenness.
Reading everything will be long but will provide clear explanations as to
why there is a collective distrust against MSM or Main Stream Media and
journalists in general and also provide solutions for course correction.
2. Evolution of
civilization through the ages has flooded life with multiple options while the
media opinion peddlers still hug to the old frames of references based on the dichotomy of Left and Right which are
outdated reductionisms.
3. Worse still these media opinion
molders script their narratives on these preconceived ideological fixations and
presumptive superiority of ideologies and extrapolate everything ad nausea by harping
on divisions and victimhood to reap dividends for themselves or their pay
masters in the process.
4. Some relevant
quotes as a prelude:-
“In the end nothing less than the whole of
everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
“Society is
always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the
new demands of each new generation.” ~John Haynes Holmes
“The things that are wrong with the
country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as
individuals” ~Charles W. Tobey
“When we think of the past, we forget
the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own
time”. ~George Boas
5. Honest reprisal of
media is required if it needs to get back some respect
6. Selective scrutiny
the greatest sickness
7. Blatant extrapolation
of out dated ideology
8. Harm to all due to
ideological extremism
9. Masks of media
getting exposed on all aspects
10. Media’s desperation
to create excessive negativism is back firing
11. How media is
digging its own grave
12. Civilization’s
inevitable manifestations will be observation of facts and then, contextually
relevant and refined adaptation of them to enhance, to empower and to enlighten
life without violent revolutions
13. Social Media’s
power is enhanced by main stream media’s biased reporting
14. Politics
is a very important and inevitable component of social evolution
but that does not mean we need to politicize
everything
15. There are many
methods, myriads of avenues, subjects and domains all helped by multitude of
technological devices which offer a variety of options for social engineering
leading to a better life of all species.
16. All opinion makers would be well
advised to accept these facts and also understand better what is real division?
17. The real harm is due to excessive
identity veneration
18. Synergy is the need of the hour
19. No single ideology can be a panacea for
all social ills and uniformity and homogenization are puerile attempts.
20. Freedom of Media
21. Modi’s
performance as on 2016 May
