Media-The Murderer

“Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages." - Stanley Baldwin

Media is often termed as fourth estate of democracy. First estate-Indian judiciary can be compared to Dharmaraja of India, can’t accuse it of anything at least as of now. Though two other estates viz. legislative and executive have less faith, they sustain. Periodical elections have at least partial command of people over them. What about fourth estate? Who controls it? Please don’t say BSA or PCI.They are Manmohan singh of media.

With great power comes responsibility. It is applicable to every field. A general have more powers compared to a major. But each step a general takes is very crucial that sometimes it determines the history one can make. We do have historical evidences of it like Dara Shikoh dismounting elephant etc. What happens if general misuses the power? We need an external force strong enough to decimate him like Jasmine revolution.

No one disagree with the power media possess especially in India. What about the responsibilities of it? BBC says there are more than 70k newspapers and 500+ channels in India in Jan-2012. India is the biggest newspaper market in the world with over 100 million copies sold each day¹. So a news paper’s report will have a considerable influence on Indian population. But if a report is published only to increase its circulation at expense of our country’s reputation what is the jasmine revolution of it?

One such example is this report in The Times of India. It states that some idiot junior officer (R.V.S. Mani) of home ministry accuses IPS officer of stating that Indian government is behind attacks of 26/11 and parliament. Even a 4^th standard student knows who is responsible for 26/11. But our idiot Mani (actually I’m decreasing the value of idiot by calling him that) doesn’t know that. That document got LEAKED. Recently many documents of CBI/Home ministry are getting leaked to such extent that RTI is feeling ashamed. Citing report of Times of India every newspaper in Pakistan quoted that India is behind attacks. The Hindu explained it very clearly here No one in India knows about it because our MSM (Main Stream Media) doesn’t report it. What should be the responsibility of Times of India-the largest circulating daily in India possess? It didn’t even check the credibility of report and published it. Times of India behaved like Dusyasana humiliating Draupadi (India)

Coming to our 24x7 media channels, they always monger about Modi. Don’t know what their obsession with him is. They hold debates about secularism every night that people hear more about secularism than our Indian constitution. 23 children died due to poisoning of the food. The cause is not established yet, but our media frame stories that Satyajit ray (thank god he left us) will envy of. I personally saw Times Now scrolling about a snake in food for some time that night. “Snake”-Seriously...?? That snake story is from Ajmer, don’t know since when Ajmer has been part of Bihar! They stopped it later though. Seems like it didn’t get its lesson correct through 100cr lawsuit².

Meanwhile NDTV is showing “MIDDAY MURDER” zooming in and out. Already enrollment in our government schools is less than our industrial growth. If people see these sorts of murder stories, they’ll never send their children to school. Is it good for our country? Reporting of such grave incident is necessary, but just keep nation’s interest in place first. These are reputed English media channels’ ideology, think about our regional channels. They aren’t eligible for a reference anywhere.

After Delhi rape incident the amount of reporting about rapes skyrocketed. If media continuously scroll about an attack on foreign national in font of Anant Ambani is simply disgusting. If some Briton sees it continuously, he’ll be under impression that India is never a safe place for outsiders. Should we allow it? In other incident news channels are showing one acid victim’s photograph having a black line segment on eyes in slow motion (like introduction of hero in our movies). Can’t these idiots have any mercy for her? People in whole India may not know her but how about her relatives/parents? Don’t they feel embarrassed? If someone pours acid on Bharka dutt will NDTV show her photos and videos having a black sensor on her eyes?

Media traditionally have much respect in democratic society, but please don’t misuse it and show whatever nonsense your sub-editors give to you. Have nation’s interest in mind always. Please don’t become the "harlot" that Baldwin mentioned and DON’T MURDER INDIA.