When some organizations with no identity claims it planted bombs in various parts of India, every Indian believes it and more so the police and the media. The media doesn’t even cross verify and pronounces the verdict even before any trial begins. The television cameras act more as AK56 guns than shouldering the responsibility of the fourth estate. But when a Maoist leader publicly claims again and again that they have killed a swami in Orissa, no one believes. The Hindu outfits very convincingly say the Maoists have not killed the Swami. How can they be so confident in saying this? Unless of course they themselves are involved.
Today the police and the sham investigations in India have become a national past time for television channels to boost their TRP rankings. Though none of the television channels make money, more channels surface every month. This results in more mics which prompts police and politicians to come to a conclusion before the trial begins. When Akshardham was attacked, L K Advani visited the site and declared the names and origins of the two terrorists killed. Now years after this unfortunate incident, there is no clue of what happened in Akshardham. No body has questioned from where Advani got that information and how could he be so accurate in declaring even the names of places in Pakistan from where they came from?
But one thing which has changed is the way terrorists are ‘made’ to operate. Earlier every terrorist will come with some dates in a plastic bag bearing the address of some Muslim locality with magazines made in Pakistan. They will also have a letter written in chaste Urdu saying they want to destroy India and they will also have a geographical map. No, I am not narrating a Bollywood film story but what happened across India. Now that this style of operations are pretty familiar and will be ‘caught’ in the public eye, the terrorists come in cycles and plant bombs. The irony is that each state catches a master mind and arranges a press conference to declare that they have caught the main person behind all the blasts. No one in the media cross examines the police theory. Those who attempts to do will be a black sheep. But well before the dust settles, another state catches another master mind and declares the same claim. Now the joke is that behind every blasts, there is a mind, an assistant master mind, a deputy master mind, a chief master mind, a Inspect General mind and a Master Mind director general. If this hierarchy can be followed by establishment why not the terrorists?
The more media entering into the arena, we see more surrendering tactics. Earlier we had a few newspapers and magazines but they put the establishments on their toes. Today we have thousands but none of them effective. The reason is the brand of journalists we have today. The earlier commitment and passion of journalism has now turned into a money making profession. Nothing wrong in that because everyone needs money, why single out journalists alone. But the institutions that functions as journalism schools today are nothing but sham institutes, producing nothing but craps.
Journalism is dead in this country. RIP
October 06, 2008
For the namesake
If America took a big hit with Osama Bin Laden practical approach of terrorism, the impact has started appearing. No, it is not any murderous attempt but the namesakes. Take for example Obama which rhymes with Osama. Biden is a shortened form of Bin Laden who stays in the Barracks of Pak-Afghan border. And all these three are major players in American politics. Surprised by three? Yes, this includes Bin Laden too.
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