Sunday, April 12, 2009

Indian Media - Diabolic Role

Consider this -

Vir Sanghvi, a very articulate journalist who poses as a neutral has been diabolically spinning every story against BJP. This time around he wrote about Congress role in 84 roits and somehow used it as a pretext to absolve Congress of 84 riots stating that since then it has won elections in Punjab two times and have a Sikh PM and Sonia has apologized to Sikhs many times over. He then trains his gun against BJP and Modi and also blame it for 84 as well as for all other communal conflagrations in the country. This is a typical case of media bias where the so called liberal journalist are relentlessly and shamelessly twisting facts and spinning the yarn. For your reference I am pasting the link (though I hate to increase the traffic on this pathetic site) View article
HT is not the only publication which has outrightly come out in favor of Congress, TOI and Indian Express are also eating out of "hand". TOI has been too eager to position Congress as eventual winners in its headline news, referring to some tangential opinion polls. Indian Express has been coming up with stories that show BJP in poor light while going very very soft on Congress and the rag tag UPA.

The paradox is that the english media derives its core subscriber base from middle class Indians (which by the way is mostly Hindu) is bent upon weaning them away. The reader anguish is evident in the comments section posted on online editions of these publications. Most of the comments are sarcastic and critical of media's role. The only credible and sensible english publication seems to be "The Pioneer" (www.dailypioneer.com). I sincerely hope that the readership of these papers and TRP rankings of biased news channels fall to such an alarming level that the money man who are now running these papers for their political bosses for some crumbs of favor comes to their senses with rapidly falling revenue, or get buried - not a very bad idea after all!

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