Media bashing

When GK was asked by a TNIE reporter what he thought of The Ink Attack, he said (into the phone, perhaps), “What do you expect from the Sena? They are idiots.”
Why did he say so?
It was probably because he was at the end of his tether with something or someone and he wanted to just forget about it for a moment.
However, we know this is a fact. There are times when idiocy seems to be prevailing despite all good sense you are trying to exert in with the very core of your being.
Idiocy can be of two sorts: Benign and malignant.
We have been focussed on malignant so closely that we lost sight of the benign.
Not having a point of view has been rewarded for way too long. The Sena, for example, falls in the malignant category and so one is on the guard for it. GK has been trying to say something and go about his day when somebody from a newspaper calls him and asks him his point of view yet again.
Dear media, I am you, I place my faith in you.
So tell me,
You are not benign,
Are you malignant then? What are you trying to find out?
Sorry,
I keep coming to the end of my tether sometimes.
It is important to have an educational background to everything. Let us just say it is important for the discipline.
Every once in a while one must go back to the basics. As a part of the media in India, I must keep doing that for the sake of (pithiness/pettiness-- how's that even correct?) being.
Medium.

• Media must not take sides. To achieve that level of impartial, scientific approach towards anything one must undergo years of training. Media studies as far as I am concerned only begins at the graduation level and extends for about two years. The manpower that we have in the media today rests on this laurel. How can one expect total impartiality from this? So let us say media must take the side of the truth. Questioning the truth is always advised, but denying it is idiocy.
  
• Report all sides of the story. This adage at best allows for all the verbosity you can muster up to get spilled on to the pages or the TV screens. Catch a story. Puke on it. Shit all over it, because everyhing must come out.
  

I will have to write later when I am in a better mood.