Monday, 20 May 2013

What the media is dong can be called Treason



Congress Party headed by The Sonia Gandhi, has been witness to a huge number of corruption scandals. BJP leaders claimed during the recently concluded election campaign in Karnataka that the value of corruption at 5.56lakh crores. The Karnataka voter did not mind the value of corruption done by the UPA government and has given a clear mandate to Congress in the state. The Congress leaders with much joy, have invented another Gandhi in the process of celebrations, Manmohan Gandhiji. I believe that the Governor of Karnataka after hearing the election results, would have walked to the party headquarters and asked the leaders of the party to form the government, and where he would have encountered an empty office. All the people were busy in lobbying for the minister posts in Delhi and Governor would have told Sonia Gandhi to decide the matters quickly. Whether Governor acted in the imagined manner is not clear, but Governor was more than happy in participating in the oath taking ceremony of the Congress ministers. This can be confirmed by his glowing face and never ending smiles during the ceremony.

The Victories of Congress party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, be it in Uttarakhand, Karnataka makes everyone believe that corruption is not a issue which the electorate worry much about. The justification given by the knowledgeable people of the press is that all the parties are corrupt and if Congress is removed, then the party coming to power will also indulge in corruption. There are those who also tell about the presence of a certain group of people who irrespective of which party exists in power will manipulate the policy decisions of the government. This group of people is the media moguls, who blackmail those in power or do some give and take business. The bartering system existed in ancient India, but it has been replaced by the use of money and everything has a fixed price in the current systems. All the business is done in common currency, and there are many agencies that monitor the money flows.

In such a regulated system, there are loopholes and Congress has to keep the media moguls happy. Thus the information and broadcasting minister has come with a plan to disburse huge amounts of money, around Rs.1800crore; for the promotion of the works and policies of the government, thus born out of desperate need to feed the media is the “Bharat Nirman” ads. The government of India worries more about the malnutrition of the journalists more than those of the rural poor.  The media houses coming to know about the welfare schemes of the government are more than happy to work for the hand that feeds it. The so called news papers will now carry more ads at the tax payer cost than the news of the bad deeds of the government.

The Congress party is happier after winning the Karnataka elections and seems to be less worried about the corruption scandals in the neighbouring state called Andhra Pradesh. The media is silent about the entire scam, and the unlucky Yeddy was hounded by media and Justice Hegde was made a omnipotent truth speaking angel. The Congress government is happily doing its good works of filling the party coffers and looting the citizens and the national media is busy talking about the IPL fixing scam. Media people went ahead and were screaming as if nuclear explosion has taken place in India and the country is facing the most and biggest problems. A billion people are in danger. When media goes overboard, it is either to protect congress or to outdo other media houses. When the media houses do the later, the Congress is in trouble for allocating more resources to the many media houses.

No wonder the increase in malnutrition of media houses is due to higher number of people and any amount of help by the government will be less because the per capita consumption will be less due to the huge population.  When the population of India was growing at a high rate, the government implemented and advertised about family planning and the benefits of a lower population and the ease of governance. The people have understood and supported the government but few communities have not done so owing to their religious and other affiliations. This is a different problem and leaving this matter aside, the time has to come for the GOI to talk about the media planning operations Knowing well that Cocaine is a addictive substance, there are curbs on its usage by the common public but not for the rich and powerful.

Like cocaine, media can be addictive. People get addicted to certain serials; news (filth that is given out 24x7) can cause changes in the thinking patterns and also lead to change in behaviour patterns. With no regulations in place, and Sri Kaju is busy doing the pardoning business, there are no controls. The media has become a cancer destroying entire nation. There is no comprehensive study about the way the media has affected the behavioural patterns of the society because government has no control. The government exists because we are told so by the media and not otherwise. Swine flu is made to buy by GOI because media created a scare among the minds of people and if GOI did not act, it will be portrayed as GOI being insensitive to the needs of the people.

Without doubt, it can be concluded that “What the media is doing can be called Treason.”

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