There is a journalist and an anchor who came to blows outside Madison
square garden during the Indian Diaspora event in US, is now preaching
tolerance and constructive criticism on national television. Then there
is this lady criticizing the PM for this shawl (which was not Louis
Vuitton) he had during his tour to Europe saying he should have chosen
Indian handloom shawl (Khadi, on pretext of #MakeInIndia),
but when this handloom cloth is used for clothing for a special event
during the summit of heads of 54 African nations in India, she cries
foul, why waste of money! Then we have brokers in the media, remember #RadiaGate #2GScam?
The same lady anchor conducts discussions on a national channel
regarding propriety and conflict of interest; irony dies then and there!
There are other too on this or the other side of the coin. All the
above people are the senior editors, those are the opinion makers who
set the public discourse, what credibility can we expect from them?!
Hence the current state of affairs in the fourth pillar of our
democracy, the so called Main Stream Media, makes me worry about my
country and its future.
Sometimes I wonder why did reports of
the church attacks that filled newspaper headlines and dominated TV
debates before the Delhi Assembly elections suddenly disappear after the
polls? It is because, all of them proved to be false and manipulated
all for politial gains; the MSM did not even think of clarifying the
reports now, solely because of their political masters. Now they have a
new Jamoora “#RisingIntolerance”. First thing first #Dadri
was wrong, very very wrong, should be condemned and the culprits should
be punished severely! But what is this farce going on in the MSM and
the #Darbaris of the Congress regime in the name of #AwardWapasi.
They say intolerance is rising and their freedom of expression is
curbed. I say, there have been thousands of television debates on it,
hundreds of editorials in leading newspapers everyweek on the” FoE
Debates”. Intellectuals, artists, politicians and a common man; all are
expressing their views (Genuine, influenced or manufactured) as they
could do it yesterday, no one stopping them. Some of them rant day and
night against a person, who is heading an elected government, they abuse
him, he tolerates them, and then they say our freedom of expression is
under threat! The worst that this MSM can do is vitiate the atmosphere
of the country, and I feel annoyed and slightly angry about it, hence
this post! "Media Must Stop This!!
Actually as someone on SM said, Freedom of expression
is doing just fine; it’s the monopoly of expression under threat for
these #Darbari's, #Sickulars, so called #Intellectuals and #AdarshLiberals!
Finally, if you question India for its tolerance, I can only feel pity
for your ignorance and intellectual bankruptcy! "Tolerance in Abundance"
is what describes India. Jai Hind!