Excessive and selective media manipulation is preying into privacy of certain individuals and certain national activities and most of these are done more for TRP or gossip etc rather than any great national interest.
More so when governments are run by responsible ministers and media is promoting the interest of the anti-national forces.
Media has been the beneficiary of politicians who have enjoyed power without performance. But suddenly, it selects certain politicians/top bureaucrats, knowing well every politician/ bureaucrat has his own constraints, role, compulsions, ideology, dynamics etc all part of his/her work/duty.
"Politicians aren't normal people and they've never lived normal lives - but the media expect them to exemplify normality defined as heterosexual monogamy." - John Dugdale, "The Times", reviewing Edwina Curries' "This Honourable House"
“Being so much a selection of facts from an infinitely complex reality, [news] can never achieve objectivity or impartiality, and hence any accusation of bias can only be one partisanship attacking another”. - Kenneth Minogue, "The Silencing of Society"
“You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to”.- Humbert Wolfe, "The British Journalist"
Even Dr. Paul Johnson, the most virulent critic of many politicians and intellectuals wrote in his article ‘Can the Media Make a Moral Contribution to our Culture?’ thus, “Intrusion into privacy is the most pernicious media sin of our time, and it seems to be growing. Every mortal man and woman have an inalienable right to some degree of privacy. However privileged, like royalty, however successful, like entertainment superstars, however powerful, like heads of government, or rich or celebrated, all require some privacy for mental and physical health. Even animals need it. Any ornithologist will tell you that some birds, if aware they are constantly watched, will pine and die. Human beings also have fragile psyches, which intrusion may maim; even holders of public office require residual privacy to function effectively. Phone tapping, "staking out," impersonation, telescopic lenses, all can be instruments of theft, as surely as a burglar's bag of tools.”
