Excerpts from my blog ‘Noncommittal media and its roleplay’ in twitter format.
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Dual role
Some are of the view that there are many good journalists, who are sincere and honest in their involvement with Anna’s anti-corruption crusade.
‘Their close association with opportunists, political parties were incidental; not predetermined or evaluated beforehand’.
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If any of these ‘good journalists’ believe that it was a mass movement with voluntary participation countrywide, it will be far from the truth.
They were projected, overplayed by the media to make it appear so. If people were agitated, how it ended without a trace.
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If someone now ventures to wear the same Trademark white cap reading ‘I am also anna’, it will produce derisive laughter not because it is out of date but because of what it achieved.
It achieved nothing except the side effects. It was perhaps intended only for these effects.
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If one still vouches for the purity of intention and path adopted; its leaders had no ulterior motives to use anti-corruption movement as a tool to usurp power, it will be another lie. It will be like Modi’s words ‘No one entered Indian territory, no Indian posts taken over’
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They are dishonest in not criticizing Anna for stopping/ dropping his efforts before the creation/ functioning of an effective Lokpal.
It should not be ignored as a rare incident of ‘satyagrahi’ misusing ‘Gandhian image’ mispresent truth misguiding gullible people.
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Why the media are not fighting against evils now?
Why have they not agitated or acted against lynchings, Delhi riots and biased investigations, and victimisations with the same fervour without fear or favour?
Why are they stuck in this duplicity and failed to act?
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This differentiated treatment and means are adopted by the ‘noncommittal’ media even for ‘neutral’ issues where opposition parties did not have a direct role but people are affected abnormally and excessively due to misuse of power and authority by the ruling regime.
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The tokenism of few articles and speeches here and there are not of any materialistic value unless issues are gone in-depth to unravel the truth.
It is not that they are incapable of such journalism and the efforts needed, investigative or otherwise to bring out the truth.
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Our ‘Free media’ is very liberal with dishonesty. It goes discreet with silences/ whimpers when the truth is to be articulated deafeningly and pursued to its end.
Are they playing to their potential when their services are badly needed?
They have some lessons to learn.
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