Dependence on propaganda is like drug addiction. It enhances imagination, but weakens the body and inhibits proper response to real events. A high price to pay. Most Indian media outlets should introspect on the damage they have done and continue to do.
Deep and exclusive preoccupation with domestic propaganda forces a govt to hide facts when things go wrong with an external rival, which encourages greater risk-taking on the rival’s part. Just as hiding economic data prevents dealing with the crisis and taking the right steps.
That’s why media that function as propaganda channels rather than jealous guardians of nation’s and citizen’s interests irrespective of who is in power are a crucial part of the reason why we are where we are.
Hold the high-viewership propaganda channels majorly responsible for the pain we are going through today. They failed to do what they were supposed to do, as the Fourth Estate.
