Thread by @ganesan312

Excerpts from my blog ‘Noncommittal media and its roleplay’ in twitter format.

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Activists role:

The so-called free, neutral, noncommittal media sometimes goes easy on their virtues and play activists role.

They invariably get aggressive and spirited to fight against the ‘failings’ of Congress, a readily available punching bag.
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This noncommittal liberal media stood shoulder to shoulder with ultra-rightists, fundamentalists, opportunists to fight a ‘great war’.

This was before they were forced after 2014 to take an invisible avatar and went to ‘Vanvaas’.
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These warriors of yesteryears who were outwardly fighting against corruption churned out the poison from the ocean.

The ulterior motives of each of these comrades in arms were different and were exposed by what followed subsequently.
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Few of them are now fighting the ‘poison’ they generated.

The noncommittal media is in a wait and watch mode and are concerned about their security and survival.

Many of their colleagues who were smitten by that poison are getting hysterical, losing mental balance.
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The entire country and its people now stand devastated because of their ‘tragedy of errors’.

Here lies a lesson for all to be thoroughly conscious to choose the right people, path, process to establish the truth.
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Media and the independent warriors should not be blinded by their abstract, hypothetical, idealistic, and intellectual thinking and bias to get away from the process of truth and sense. They are not Krishna avatar to adopt any means to fight evils. They are just human.
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Political fights for a cause should have avoided lies, propaganda, and agitations aligning with evil, opportunistic and disruptive forces giving them dignity and respect.

Unfortunately, the media which is supposed to be the protector of democracy got into this gutter.
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They were lying to the people and were dishonest when they carried out those dramas with the basic aim of defeating the Congress to serve their ends.

No one can believe that these experienced media persons were unaware of the political scheme of BJP/ RSS and others.
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What these media and other activists associated with their then commander-in-chief were doing then, are the same that are being carried out at a higher pitch openly and loudly now, by the committed media circus promoting and supporting the present rulers.
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The era of manipulating, hoodwinking people and their perceptions; politically dividing them for short term political interests; compromising with criminal forces, hooligans, thugs to mobilize or threaten people to toe their political line for winning elections should stop.
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