to the citizen of this country
I am convinced that your anger against the media is justified, but I feel it is coming at a really bad time.
If you had, like me, totally given up on the media in the run-up to the 2014 elections, you would see that as of now, we are only reaping what we had sown then.
Though you view the media as the fifth pillar of democracy etc, you must understand that more than anything, media will show you the ugly truth. You might have attributed to it, the role of telling truth to power etc. but unfortunately, that is just a role that the media has been forced to play, because you gave that role to the media. Its only role is to tell the truth, not call it out or pit it against power etc.
During the run-up to the elections or I do not know how many years this was going on for before too, within the media and without came these people who wanted to tell truth to power. The fervour of ripping this power apart was fed, the ultimate goal of which was a Congress-mukt Bharat.
All so-called apolitical beings crept in to the important posts everywhere. Forget about being apolitical, these people were even unable to get over the irrational hatred they felt towards one political party. The seeds of hatred were sown then.
(See, I am all for democracy and for having several parties that the people can choose from, but my dears, what is the point of that exercise in our country, where it is not ideological differences that are making up the different parties, but just the difference in which vulnerability in the masses the parties choose to exploit. In this, I must completely keep Kerala away from the discussion as there the two political parties at least began with an ideological difference and nothing more or less.)
In the media too there were many of us, always claiming, that we are apolitical, neutral etc. It was a farce. The moment the corruption bomb came in the hands of the citizens, wow, that was a ridiculous phase, the middle-class was protesting, for the first time in their really pathetic lives. It is you, the pathetic apolitical petty middle-class, that gave media the voice that it uses now. It is you that told the media, so what if there is no justice in our courts, let us get justice on TV.
And so, dear citizen of India, just like you, the media that is made of several citizens, too has failed.
I feel any institution or pillar of the institution does not need censure at a time it has failed and is coming to terms with the bloody fall. It must get back up on its feet. If you could keep the volume turned low, the media might be able to do so, but considering it is the loudest time the human race has ever been in, asking for the volume to be turned low is not only an unreasonable, but also a precious thing to ask for.
My advice to you, dear citizen, is to give it a rest.
And focus, really focus all your energies on that which is bringing out the worst in us, that which has finally managed to step out, in its fancy clothes and flaky talk, 69 years after it killed the father of the nation.
If you had, like me, totally given up on the media in the run-up to the 2014 elections, you would see that as of now, we are only reaping what we had sown then.
Though you view the media as the fifth pillar of democracy etc, you must understand that more than anything, media will show you the ugly truth. You might have attributed to it, the role of telling truth to power etc. but unfortunately, that is just a role that the media has been forced to play, because you gave that role to the media. Its only role is to tell the truth, not call it out or pit it against power etc.
During the run-up to the elections or I do not know how many years this was going on for before too, within the media and without came these people who wanted to tell truth to power. The fervour of ripping this power apart was fed, the ultimate goal of which was a Congress-mukt Bharat.
All so-called apolitical beings crept in to the important posts everywhere. Forget about being apolitical, these people were even unable to get over the irrational hatred they felt towards one political party. The seeds of hatred were sown then.
(See, I am all for democracy and for having several parties that the people can choose from, but my dears, what is the point of that exercise in our country, where it is not ideological differences that are making up the different parties, but just the difference in which vulnerability in the masses the parties choose to exploit. In this, I must completely keep Kerala away from the discussion as there the two political parties at least began with an ideological difference and nothing more or less.)
In the media too there were many of us, always claiming, that we are apolitical, neutral etc. It was a farce. The moment the corruption bomb came in the hands of the citizens, wow, that was a ridiculous phase, the middle-class was protesting, for the first time in their really pathetic lives. It is you, the pathetic apolitical petty middle-class, that gave media the voice that it uses now. It is you that told the media, so what if there is no justice in our courts, let us get justice on TV.
And so, dear citizen of India, just like you, the media that is made of several citizens, too has failed.
I feel any institution or pillar of the institution does not need censure at a time it has failed and is coming to terms with the bloody fall. It must get back up on its feet. If you could keep the volume turned low, the media might be able to do so, but considering it is the loudest time the human race has ever been in, asking for the volume to be turned low is not only an unreasonable, but also a precious thing to ask for.
My advice to you, dear citizen, is to give it a rest.
And focus, really focus all your energies on that which is bringing out the worst in us, that which has finally managed to step out, in its fancy clothes and flaky talk, 69 years after it killed the father of the nation.
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