When I was of impressionable age I use to think
that Journalism is one of the toughest career as you have to brave things such
as intimidation, prosecution, slandering etc while fearlessly reporting about
ills plaguing society/government. Now I know that it is a deftly created Façade
by Journos who are reporting biased views in cahoots with power brokers to keep
Aam Aadmi mouth shut from asking too many uncomfortable questions.
I am not sure if you have noticed
but I found major section of Indian Media to be very biased. We know how certain
Journos has hounded one particular CM for riots but they easily forgot or tend
to forget riots happened in another states. The same group seems very happy with
a political party where dynasty rules but finds issues in another party where there
are multiple leaders democratically promoting/airing their self-cause for top post. The so called messiahs of media demand
individual/parties to be secular but never question the undermining of constitutional
institutions, which are created to protected secularism of this country, by a perceived
secular individual/party. The media messiahs always highlight issues from states
ruled by a right wing party and never give due credit even when survey after
survey it is found that states ruled by right wing party are doing far better
and the same time these media messiahs always turn a blind eye to issues from
state ruled by perceived secular parties and also fails to report that some of
these states are worst performers.
After years of
reading/listening/watching such biased reporting finally Aam Aadmi got social
media based on internet where she can air her views on anything under
the sun. In recent times Aam Aadmi has used social media effectively to protest
against government on the issues ranging from Corruption To Rape and in all
this major section of media just acted like a messenger and even sometime
helper of corrupt government to quell/kill the protest. Now Aam Aadmi is not buying everything
reported by such biased media but using social media to counter every biased
view of Indian Media. I guess this has made the so called Opinion Makers, who
till this point of time were used to enforce their view on us, feel very threatened
so they are running back to their fiefdoms by giving excuse that they cannot
tolerate online intimidation, prosecution, slandering etc. If these Super Juornos can cave in so easily to online intimdation then it is so easy to assume how easily they can be manipulated by our Netas/Industrialists. Ha Ha…foolish me use
to think that real journalist are immune to all such things but now I understand
this is a perfect example of Chor ki
dhadhi main Tinka :P Slandering is sticking to these Opinion Makers as there is
some truth in it…whts say

Really good article! Rise of Social media has certainly sounded the death knell for Mainstream media hellbent on pushing their own narrow agendas. There can me more versions of truth and it is now possible to know it thanks to Social media.
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