Sections of the media which have bent over backwards to placate a State Government which is handing out largesse including and not limited to advertisements have recently demonstrated that they will stoop to any extent to suppress the truth and belittle the movement of lawyers. Earlier front page articles spoke of unexploded petrol bombs being hurled at police jeeps, cops coming to hand over resignations to the Police Commissioner at the High Court campus having their wrists slashed, senior police officers being stripped but being able to send SMSs, the dirty tricks department of the Police found willing partners in their campaign in a section of the media, which was shamelessly indulging in disseminating propoganda as news.
What took the cake was the coverage of yesterday's rally of thousands of lawyers (estimates range from 35,000 and 50,000 participants). Take the Hindu for instance. Unrelenting in its disdain for the lawyers' struggle for justice and solicitious of police sensitivity and ruling party's political compulsions, the Hindu took the leap from the incredible to the bizarre today. Falling over in haste to trivialise the turnout, the Hindu in its online edition initially said that there were 2,000 lawyers in the march, revised it to about 5,000 and by this morning's print edition had reduced it to a few hundreds. We wouldnt be surprised if this is revised downwards to "dozens" by tomorrow's edition. With this latest insult to reader's intelligence, the Hindu's fall to ignominy was complete. What a change from Mr. N. Ravi's hard hitting editorials and Ms. Malini Parthasarathi's unflagging criticism of the establishment. We wouldnt be surprised if the Hindu carried a front page interview with Mr. M. Karunanidhi in the manner of Harish Khare's "exclusive" interview with Atal Bihari Vajpayee for no ostensible reason other than the fact that he was the Prime Minister of the Country at that time.
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Only if you are the center of the news you will know the lies of the media circulating around you.
ReplyDeleteHindu-5,000 lawyers participated.
Times of India-10,000.
Deccan Chronicle-15,000.
Indian Express - Mammoth rally.
The above are the number games played by the media regarding the yesterday's Lawyers' Rally for Justice.
Unfortunately, because to suppress the news of lawyers rally, Saravanabhavan owner's news dominated todays first page of all the news papers.
It is ok, lawyers are not politicians and they don't need any publicity.
But we should remember when ever any sensational(ised) news (Rapes and Murders) published by these medias, lets be careful before we belive them.
All the newspapers and the newschannels in the country should change their name to "Views papers" and "views channels". It is evident from the fact that all these so-called newspapers and news channels are more intent to conduct opinion polls and make their money out of the SMS people send than to report any news in its true form. What a shame that these newpapers are fighting to prove to the public that they do not publish "news" any more and people pay and buy these papers only to get the views of individuals' who run the papers. In some movie, one of the Vivek's joke was to show these papers being used as tissue papers during water scarcity. Here after these papers are fit only for that. Best thing is they are cheaper than the regular tissue papers.
ReplyDeleteLIKE ADVOCATES V.S. KESAVAN AND THENMOZHI AIRED THEIR VIEWS ABOUT THE NUMBER GAME PLAYED BY THESE PRESS, IT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT THE HINDU CAME OUT AS MOST DEVIOUS AND CHEAPEST OUTLOOK.
ReplyDeleteLEGAL FRATERNITY ALONG WITH THEIR CLIENTS MUST ENFORCE THE ALREADY TAKEN DECISION TO BOYCOTT THE HINDU. AS A MATTER OF FACT LOTS OF US ALREADY SHIFTED TO DECCAN AND TIMES OF INDIA.
IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE THE HINDU CIRCULATION DIMINISHES.
IT WILL BE A GREAT IDEA TO THANK DECCAN AND TIMES OF INDIA DURING VOTE OF THANKS IN ANY FUNCTION ORGANIZED BY THE LAWYERS.
TILL SUCH TIME LET US GET KNOCKING DOWN THE HINDU BRICK BY BRICK BY STOPPING EACH AND EVERY ONE WE KNOW OF FROM SUBSCRIBING TO "THE HINDU" THE SYCOPHANT NEWS PAPER.