A few days ago, we saw resignation of one of the spokespersons of Congress Party from all his parliamentary position on the alleged misconduct inside a Court premises. In fact, this news was hidden from the general public by the Main Stream Media from the beginning. All media houses (both print and electronic) did not bother to report about this earlier, although court asked them not to show the CD’s contents. Reporting the news was not prohibited by the court, but the Media deliberately blacks out this news since the issue involved a ruling party member.
Now question arises: Had the issue involved a member of an opposition party, would any media house have shown this much of restraint? The media houses in India are notorious for conducting trial and give their judgement sitting from their posh studios. They become the judge and adjudicator, they gather some evidence from “sources” and throw them on ignorant public. But in the Singvi case, the accused MP got a reprieve from the court which prohibited the channels not to show the alleged CD’s contents.
Read the following blog of a famous media critic which exposes tricks that Indian Mainstream media (MSM), our so called TV channels and newspapers are playing all these years.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2012/04/why-indian-msm-wants-social-media-dead.html
The same media never showed any restraint previously in many cases invloving famous personalities, as they mostly belonged to opposition parties or belonged to a particular community. The following link shows how biased the MSM about the Right To Education Bill.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2012/04/self-righteous-shill-rte.html
Few questions naturally come up regarding the conduct of the Indian media?
- Will they show similar restraint for all the future issues involving a common man?
- Will they show some sense of respect to an accused?
- WIll they stop any future Trial by Media in the Prime Time news hours and give an accused a chance to speak before the highest court of law instead of to them first?
Trial by Media
The recent vivid example is Arushi Talwar murder case, where the entire media played a heinous role of indicting the parents of the girl as the criminal even before the case was heard before the Court.
The most dangerous example of Trial by Media is the case against Narendra Modi which has been going on for a decade without a shred of evidence of his involvement in riots. The entire media is up in arms against the leader and launched the most disgusting character assassination campaign ever. Unfortunately despite their best efforts, he has been elected twice to rule the state and still going to rule for another term.
We all know how the same news channels used the word “Sources” to bring some untruth about any person or accused. The sources in these cases mostly govt. agents or CBI or Police who used to make selective leaks to the Media and make the issue most sensational. The Supreme Court cautioned media against their irresponsible reporting affecting the honour of crime victim, in case of Aarushi murder. It advised that both print and electronic media should exercise caution in publishing any news regarding the case which may prejudie the case or damage reputations.
The same Mainstream media showcased BS Yeddyurapa as one of the most corrupt CM, but when the court absloved him of all those cases filed by Lokayukta, no media reported this and by that time they have successfully tarnished the image of one of the most popular CM of Karnataka. This showed how electronic media and journalists unleashed their dirty tricks on opposition or whosoever opposing the UPA govt. Social Media like Twitter and Facebook are used extensively to expose these tricks of the Media houses and ruling party.
The MSM tried to spoil the “India Against Corruption” Movement which brought lakhs of people on the street spontaneously with inspiring Anna Hazare but later the same media was used to tarnish the reputation of Team Anna members with active connivance of the Ruling party. They played every trick of the trade, even a fake and morphed CD was used to expose Team Anna members’ corruption, which court disqualified outright. The movement is gone for ever from public eyes.
Time has come to be aware and be awakened about these traitors in the electronic media who are in connivance with their political paymasters are playing with the nation and its wealth. The same govt. offers the journalists or news editors awards like Padmashree, Padma Bhusan and offers them land at low prices, bails out them whenever they face any financial crisis. All these are done in such a hush hush manner that the public will not get any clue about these tricks.
Social Media Advantage
The Mainstream Media is seriously afraid of rising people’s power, the voice of the people through Social Media like Twitter and Facebook. The voice of common man from the street must be taken to the Powers that Be through the Social Media. The Mainstream Media creates a fake and rosy picture of the country as if “All iz Well” with the economy or Growth of the country. The media must focus the real issues affecting the country rather than IPL, Indo-Pak Cricket series, or the next Shahrukh movie etc. We must be aware of the many issues affecting the country: actual debt trap of this country, how the country is making the repayment to the World Bank and other countries, defence preparedness in the case of war. We must be responsible for the future generation of the country. Social Media must be lauded for its efforts in enlightening the masses about the things which the Mainstream media usually blacks out from the masses.
The main pillar of Social Media: Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and online petitions are forceful tools that can be used to galvanize support for local and national causes. Twitter and FB helped in Anna movement last year. They helped bringing the great Arab Spring revolution in many countries. Facebook reportedly boast of abut 901 million users who daily use Facebook. It will touch 1 Billion in a few months, I guess. Out of world’s population of 7 billion, Facebook has almost 1 billion users who daily log in or get the information from it. Because the people trust these social media more and more rather than the MSM.
Indian Media in deep nexus with vested interests of businessmen, dealers, fixers and politicians are not allowing the rule of the game to be toppled by Social Media. Now they are trying to create roadblocks in the Free Speech movement as they are all afraid of losing their control over the system. The politicians will be used to frame laws against the Free Speech movement of Social Media. We must be awakened about the system in deep nexus with vested interests which has taken over the control of the wealth of the nation, those few people in the ruling class are getting the ultimate benefit in the name of democracy disregarding the livelihood or problems of the vast majority of the public.
Only a powerful Social Media can bring about a revolution in the country as fourth pillar of democracy (Press or Media) is already dead in the country.
Now question arises: Had the issue involved a member of an opposition party, would any media house have shown this much of restraint? The media houses in India are notorious for conducting trial and give their judgement sitting from their posh studios. They become the judge and adjudicator, they gather some evidence from “sources” and throw them on ignorant public. But in the Singvi case, the accused MP got a reprieve from the court which prohibited the channels not to show the alleged CD’s contents.
Read the following blog of a famous media critic which exposes tricks that Indian Mainstream media (MSM), our so called TV channels and newspapers are playing all these years.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2012/04/why-indian-msm-wants-social-media-dead.html
The same media never showed any restraint previously in many cases invloving famous personalities, as they mostly belonged to opposition parties or belonged to a particular community. The following link shows how biased the MSM about the Right To Education Bill.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2012/04/self-righteous-shill-rte.html
Few questions naturally come up regarding the conduct of the Indian media?
- Will they show similar restraint for all the future issues involving a common man?
- Will they show some sense of respect to an accused?
- WIll they stop any future Trial by Media in the Prime Time news hours and give an accused a chance to speak before the highest court of law instead of to them first?
Trial by Media
The recent vivid example is Arushi Talwar murder case, where the entire media played a heinous role of indicting the parents of the girl as the criminal even before the case was heard before the Court.
The most dangerous example of Trial by Media is the case against Narendra Modi which has been going on for a decade without a shred of evidence of his involvement in riots. The entire media is up in arms against the leader and launched the most disgusting character assassination campaign ever. Unfortunately despite their best efforts, he has been elected twice to rule the state and still going to rule for another term.
We all know how the same news channels used the word “Sources” to bring some untruth about any person or accused. The sources in these cases mostly govt. agents or CBI or Police who used to make selective leaks to the Media and make the issue most sensational. The Supreme Court cautioned media against their irresponsible reporting affecting the honour of crime victim, in case of Aarushi murder. It advised that both print and electronic media should exercise caution in publishing any news regarding the case which may prejudie the case or damage reputations.
The same Mainstream media showcased BS Yeddyurapa as one of the most corrupt CM, but when the court absloved him of all those cases filed by Lokayukta, no media reported this and by that time they have successfully tarnished the image of one of the most popular CM of Karnataka. This showed how electronic media and journalists unleashed their dirty tricks on opposition or whosoever opposing the UPA govt. Social Media like Twitter and Facebook are used extensively to expose these tricks of the Media houses and ruling party.
The MSM tried to spoil the “India Against Corruption” Movement which brought lakhs of people on the street spontaneously with inspiring Anna Hazare but later the same media was used to tarnish the reputation of Team Anna members with active connivance of the Ruling party. They played every trick of the trade, even a fake and morphed CD was used to expose Team Anna members’ corruption, which court disqualified outright. The movement is gone for ever from public eyes.
Time has come to be aware and be awakened about these traitors in the electronic media who are in connivance with their political paymasters are playing with the nation and its wealth. The same govt. offers the journalists or news editors awards like Padmashree, Padma Bhusan and offers them land at low prices, bails out them whenever they face any financial crisis. All these are done in such a hush hush manner that the public will not get any clue about these tricks.
Social Media Advantage
The Mainstream Media is seriously afraid of rising people’s power, the voice of the people through Social Media like Twitter and Facebook. The voice of common man from the street must be taken to the Powers that Be through the Social Media. The Mainstream Media creates a fake and rosy picture of the country as if “All iz Well” with the economy or Growth of the country. The media must focus the real issues affecting the country rather than IPL, Indo-Pak Cricket series, or the next Shahrukh movie etc. We must be aware of the many issues affecting the country: actual debt trap of this country, how the country is making the repayment to the World Bank and other countries, defence preparedness in the case of war. We must be responsible for the future generation of the country. Social Media must be lauded for its efforts in enlightening the masses about the things which the Mainstream media usually blacks out from the masses.
The main pillar of Social Media: Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and online petitions are forceful tools that can be used to galvanize support for local and national causes. Twitter and FB helped in Anna movement last year. They helped bringing the great Arab Spring revolution in many countries. Facebook reportedly boast of abut 901 million users who daily use Facebook. It will touch 1 Billion in a few months, I guess. Out of world’s population of 7 billion, Facebook has almost 1 billion users who daily log in or get the information from it. Because the people trust these social media more and more rather than the MSM.
Indian Media in deep nexus with vested interests of businessmen, dealers, fixers and politicians are not allowing the rule of the game to be toppled by Social Media. Now they are trying to create roadblocks in the Free Speech movement as they are all afraid of losing their control over the system. The politicians will be used to frame laws against the Free Speech movement of Social Media. We must be awakened about the system in deep nexus with vested interests which has taken over the control of the wealth of the nation, those few people in the ruling class are getting the ultimate benefit in the name of democracy disregarding the livelihood or problems of the vast majority of the public.
Only a powerful Social Media can bring about a revolution in the country as fourth pillar of democracy (Press or Media) is already dead in the country.
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