Thursday, April 25, 2013

Journalists are a worried lot…cause of Trolls :P


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

1 comment :

  1. 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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