The principle of "News with social responsibility and accountability" is unknown to Indian media or if known, it is deliberately ignored, without realizing the consequences. In the race for TRP ratings, English medium TV channels and their Hindi appendages, flout all norms of social responsibility. Unverified and false news items are flashed and circulated to create a sensation and chaos. By the time truth comes out, damage is already done. In fact, instead of reporting news, India media creates news. The recent example is of Indian Express and its CEO Shekhar Gupta, making mountain out of a mole hill of Coastal Guard DIG's casual remark, distorted and twisted, to present it as if PAKISTANI boat was blasted by Indian Coastal Guard, on the new year evening. It was perhaps a drunken boast in a party and not a public statement. It can not be taken as real truth. Even, if it was, what was a need for so much noise on the Pakistani Boat which was loitering in Indian waters. It could be an inadvertent mistake. But the thrust of media argument is to embarrass the government. If Shekhar Gupta and Co are so concerned about the life of Pakistani Taliban , they should go and preach this to General Raheel Sharief , COAS of Pakistan Army. Who does not know how Shekhar Gupta and Harinder Baweja had led Vajpayee up the garden path in February 1999, when they came back with an invitation for talks from same Nawaz Shrief after interviewing him in January 1999? Vajpayee fell into the trap and Kargil happened. It is the Same Shekhar Gupta, who accused a former Army Chief, General VK Singh, of engineering an army Coup. He does get fancy ideas in his dreams. There are so many fancied news items to his name that one is surprised he was not sacked by Indian Express management.Time to put him back in his place.
The media is an agent of disunity and disharmony in India. It pitches, one community against another. It creates meanings into words uttered by individuals. Take for example Narender Modi's famous/ infamous comments on a 'Pup -coming -under -the -wheel -of -a -car', when asked about GUJARAT riots of 2002. It was a simple statement to say that one feels hurt, even if a pup gets injured under the wheel of a car and therefore it was natural for one to be perturbed when Humans are involved. Media read it as Modi equating Gujarat Muslims with PuPs. There are numerous such instances when many a reputations have been shattered through Media mischiefs. It is now turning out that Isharat JAHAN encounter case was totally a Congress-prompted and a media backed up case to malign Natender Modi and his close confidante, Amit Shah. This has now been revealed by Mrs. Natrajan, an Ex Congress minister in UPA regime.
Recently , a lot of noise has been created in the public domain that Christian Institutes and places of worship have been attacked to terrorize them to convert or leave. Even President Obama of USA talked of 'religious Intolerance' in India shocking Mahatma Gandhi. The theme of all these news items was that Hindutava Forces have begun to raise their ugly head since the rise of Narender Modi as Prime Minister of India. I don't know what they mean by " Ugly Head"? Aren't missionaries of other religions doing the same things amongst socially underprivileged amongst HINDUS? Surprisingly, on one hand, they are converting them as Christians and Muslims, on the other hand , they want reservations for these converted people as applicable to Scheduled castes. AndI am told other religions do not follow Caste system. Even during the Delhi elections, there were protest marches by Christian organisations to criticize BJP. And all this was inferred from "Ghar Bapisi" ( Home Return) programmes by RSS (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh) , who launched a social programme to reconvert low caste Hindus , who had left its fold to become Christians and Muslims. RSS viewpoint was that they were mislead and lured by other religions. And RSS was only motivating those who were willing to come back.
After examininning the issue it comes to light that Indian media jumps to conclusions, may be at the behest of its foreign masters. "Goeblian lies " are resorted to make such falsehoods as true events. In most cases, they later turn out to be CREATED NEWS. In fact, Indian media has been rightly called a bunch of "News Traders". I feel there is a need to have a law to severely punish such NEWS SELLERS in the interest of National security and integrity. May be, there licenses should be cancelled and infrastructure confiscated. Here is what has now come out on what exactly happened in all these incidents reported about ATTACKS on Christians. This has been reported in "First Post ", an online magazine :---
"------------The first of these six alleged attacks, the fire that resulted in the burning of St. Sebastian Church in Dilshad Garden, is currently under investigation by a Special Investigative Team (SIT) set up by the Home Ministry shortly after the incident occurred in December. it seemed that it was a case of electric short circuit. In a second incident, in Jasola, it was alleged that a group of miscreants threw a stone and shattered a window pane. The police commissioner, as reported here by a news editor and here said it was due to a group of kids playing outside, which resulted in a stone landing inside the church. There is no evidence as yet of any communal angle.
The third incident in Rohini, in which the Christmas crib was charred, was determined by the police to be the result of an electrical short circuit. The fourth incident in Vikaspuri, in which a small group of men allegedly vandalised a church, turned out to be the result of a drunken dare. What’s more, they were caught on CCTV and arrested shortly thereafter by the police and have confessed to the crime. Again, there’s no evidence whatsoever of a communal angle.
The fifth incident in Vasant Kunj, allegedly a case of burglary, is currently under investigation by the police. The sixth and most recent incident, in Vasant Vihar, of a burglary at a Christian school, has been determined by the police and the school itself to be a case of theft— Rs. 8,000 was reported to have been stolen — again, no communal angle. And, according to the Delhi Police themselves, there’s no evidence whatever that these six incidents in Dilshad Garden, Jasola, Rohini, Vikaspuri, Vasant Kunj and Vasant Vihar are related or part of a pattern of attacks on minority institutions. Further, again according to the police themselves, and as noted above, there’s no evidence that communal sentiment animated any of these attacks.------------"
You see , how these events were manipulated in Indian media to undermine current BJP government at the centre, in General and Narender Modi in Particular. it is disgraceful for Indian media. Freedom of expression does not mean you circulate rubbish. I am NO Narender Modi follower nor a member of BJP. In fact ,I detest Politicians and persons with religion on their sleeves. I strongly believe that MEDIA, RELIGION and POLITICS have kept the nation divided. Islands of disunity have been created because of selfish motives of politicians. However, I admire Narender Modi, for man's vision and concern for India. He rightly says secularism to him is Indianes. I agree with him. Therefore, I want to give him time before I say anything against him. But forces inmical to unity of India do not want him to continue because a strong central government would undo their 67 years of fragmenting India like a medieval ages country , ruled by small kings and feudal lords, squabbling with each other. It would then be very easy to enslave them.
China has been advocating break up of India into 20-30 states. North east and Maoists insurgency is Cinese creation. Pakistan has been fighting China's OUTSOURCED WAR on India through KASHMIR and PUNJAB because it feels Pakistan can not be SE cure and peaceful till India exists. And in its eagerness to counteR India, it has been selling its sovereignty to China, who has already got the rights to develop warm water port at Gwador. Besides, Pakistan has been seeding militancy in India through Taliban. Last UPA government had totally ignored these forces busy destabilizing India. Rise of Narender Modi was therefore a welcome step for the security and defence of India. He has become a thorn in the flesh. This is why all this noise about Hindutava and charges against Hindu organisations. And India media has become a willing participant in the Balkanization of India. There is a dire need to make Indian media responsive to Indian security and social harmony needs.
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