TRIVIAL SILLY ISSUES HAVE BECOME MORE IMPORTANT FOR INDIAN POLITICIANS & MEDIA (23rd Nov 2009, 1540 Hrs)
Such a beautiful country of mine is being divided into fragments by politicians and media to gain power and high TRPs respectively by highlighting and fighting over trivial silly issues. It is such a shameful act of greed, when there are millions of Indians, who don’t even have three-meals-a-day, proper drinking water, electricity, basic sanitation, health care, education and honorable lives to live…The greed to accumulate more and more wealth and power, for what my dear countrymen?
Well, our leaders, who have shut their blind eyes towards poor villagers and slum dwellers, are only bothered to lick ass of the rich industrialists, exploit the already downtrodden to further increase their woes and miseries, earn crores and crores by being corrupt and snatching away three meals from the poor… all these while using the poor Indians for their vote to be in power. While they hardly do anything at all for the benefits of the poor, they shamelessly provide all the privileges and benefits to the few rich industrialists by snatching away everything from the poor.
Trivial silly issues have become the order of the day for these politicians to engage continuously and the irresponsible media to highlight, since they dance on politicians whims and fancy without really highlighting and reporting serious and grave issues that is plaguing our nation. These so-called highly intelligent breed of channels’ editors are in fact worst than the politicians because they know every politicians are saying LIES and yet, they highlight them as if it is the only TRUTH! I really pity them because even I am a journalist and I know what all goes in print and electronic media. There are so many cases of irresponsible reporting, ego and attitude throwing by seniors to groom the juniors into corrupt media individuals. However, there are very few, I repeat, very few media individuals, who have not sold themselves and their conscience to do their work as a responsible citizen of India.
If a junior investigates a story to perfection with proof and evidences, even before any officials can challenge him, first his editors will challenge him, harass him and finally will never publish or carry the truth because of its authentic reporting. I have faced the same thing many a times when my editor had given me the go ahead but after I filed the article with proper evidence and interviewing the said party or individuals, it never saw the daylight. The reason being, many high profile individuals’ image would be tarnished and then the publication would be banned by them. And the publication cannot afford to be truthful to show the world they are fearless as the fourth pillar of the so-called educated society! Isn’t it a shame?
However, ever since I started blogging, I am glad I can write the truth about various issues to highlight the plight of poor farmers in remote villages, who are living lives of adversities without proper food, irrigation facilities and what not. It gives me a satisfaction to be a responsible journalist and I do feel I have been able to open few eyes in the society with my blogs and various issues that I am writing today.
Indeed, it is sad that instead of INFORMING about the various real happenings around the world and expose the inefficiency of the ruling government or opposition, media today has become a race for TRPs to gain the crores from advertising pie. News channels have become PR machinery for limited high profile individuals, who are only talked about in a positive manner to keep them happy and always in limelight. While politicians only issues ‘LIES’ in their manifestos or press releases, the electronic media speculate those LIES as facts to spread more HATRED among us by showing 24x7 the same lies on and on to such an extent that every viewer thinks it as truth.
The fourth pillar is perhaps the most important and responsible one in any demographic structure to unite the country as ONE ENTITY. However, they have lost their credentials because of race to the TRPs. What is TRPs? To me, TRPs = Totally Ridiculing People’s Sentiments! Yes, news today is ridiculing people’s sentiments and creating chaos by spreading HATRED in the society, thereby endangering every citizen, who wishes to live in peace and live happily with his work and family.
I was working in the Express Group once and will share a beautiful experience of truth or dare by the Express Group Goenkas to take on Amitabh Bachchan while supporting the Editor’s article fearlessly and not cowing down against India’s superstar’s demand for an apology! Till then, I would like to request sincerely all my media colleagues, WAKE UP, WAKE UP before it is too late! The politicians have sold their ‘conscience’ and don’t even hesitate to sell their own mother, so let us stop them before they sell our motherland to another country to rule us for another 2000 years. Be responsible, fearless and above all, let us expose the hidden agendas of these corrupt politicians – be it Congress, Shiv Sena, BJP, MNS, SP or RJD – to save our country and progress in a united manner! We surely have the power, so why not use it for the benefit of all INDIANS? Trust me, it will be such a wonderful experience!
Such a beautiful country of mine is being divided into fragments by politicians and media to gain power and high TRPs respectively by highlighting and fighting over trivial silly issues. It is such a shameful act of greed, when there are millions of Indians, who don’t even have three-meals-a-day, proper drinking water, electricity, basic sanitation, health care, education and honorable lives to live…The greed to accumulate more and more wealth and power, for what my dear countrymen?
Well, our leaders, who have shut their blind eyes towards poor villagers and slum dwellers, are only bothered to lick ass of the rich industrialists, exploit the already downtrodden to further increase their woes and miseries, earn crores and crores by being corrupt and snatching away three meals from the poor… all these while using the poor Indians for their vote to be in power. While they hardly do anything at all for the benefits of the poor, they shamelessly provide all the privileges and benefits to the few rich industrialists by snatching away everything from the poor.
Trivial silly issues have become the order of the day for these politicians to engage continuously and the irresponsible media to highlight, since they dance on politicians whims and fancy without really highlighting and reporting serious and grave issues that is plaguing our nation. These so-called highly intelligent breed of channels’ editors are in fact worst than the politicians because they know every politicians are saying LIES and yet, they highlight them as if it is the only TRUTH! I really pity them because even I am a journalist and I know what all goes in print and electronic media. There are so many cases of irresponsible reporting, ego and attitude throwing by seniors to groom the juniors into corrupt media individuals. However, there are very few, I repeat, very few media individuals, who have not sold themselves and their conscience to do their work as a responsible citizen of India.
If a junior investigates a story to perfection with proof and evidences, even before any officials can challenge him, first his editors will challenge him, harass him and finally will never publish or carry the truth because of its authentic reporting. I have faced the same thing many a times when my editor had given me the go ahead but after I filed the article with proper evidence and interviewing the said party or individuals, it never saw the daylight. The reason being, many high profile individuals’ image would be tarnished and then the publication would be banned by them. And the publication cannot afford to be truthful to show the world they are fearless as the fourth pillar of the so-called educated society! Isn’t it a shame?
However, ever since I started blogging, I am glad I can write the truth about various issues to highlight the plight of poor farmers in remote villages, who are living lives of adversities without proper food, irrigation facilities and what not. It gives me a satisfaction to be a responsible journalist and I do feel I have been able to open few eyes in the society with my blogs and various issues that I am writing today.
Indeed, it is sad that instead of INFORMING about the various real happenings around the world and expose the inefficiency of the ruling government or opposition, media today has become a race for TRPs to gain the crores from advertising pie. News channels have become PR machinery for limited high profile individuals, who are only talked about in a positive manner to keep them happy and always in limelight. While politicians only issues ‘LIES’ in their manifestos or press releases, the electronic media speculate those LIES as facts to spread more HATRED among us by showing 24x7 the same lies on and on to such an extent that every viewer thinks it as truth.
The fourth pillar is perhaps the most important and responsible one in any demographic structure to unite the country as ONE ENTITY. However, they have lost their credentials because of race to the TRPs. What is TRPs? To me, TRPs = Totally Ridiculing People’s Sentiments! Yes, news today is ridiculing people’s sentiments and creating chaos by spreading HATRED in the society, thereby endangering every citizen, who wishes to live in peace and live happily with his work and family.
I was working in the Express Group once and will share a beautiful experience of truth or dare by the Express Group Goenkas to take on Amitabh Bachchan while supporting the Editor’s article fearlessly and not cowing down against India’s superstar’s demand for an apology! Till then, I would like to request sincerely all my media colleagues, WAKE UP, WAKE UP before it is too late! The politicians have sold their ‘conscience’ and don’t even hesitate to sell their own mother, so let us stop them before they sell our motherland to another country to rule us for another 2000 years. Be responsible, fearless and above all, let us expose the hidden agendas of these corrupt politicians – be it Congress, Shiv Sena, BJP, MNS, SP or RJD – to save our country and progress in a united manner! We surely have the power, so why not use it for the benefit of all INDIANS? Trust me, it will be such a wonderful experience!
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