Can this fraternity assure, that Jarnail Singh will not be blamed of any political intentions?
Even when a journo, after a few months, asks about the wherabbouts of Jarnail Singh; in all possiblity the question asking Journo will be killed.
Regards
Omkar
2009/4/7 Omkar Thatte <omkarthatte@gmail.com >
I agree with the point regarding reporting of a statement that is all.
But we should also understand, that there has to be some pent up frustration for a person to do such a thing.
What could that be, and where is it leading to? Why are suddenly the responsible members of the fourth estate resorting to such expressions?
It is a fact, that Journo's are not allowed to print whatever facts they gather; facts which actually should be made public. They are not printed due to fear, of political honcho's or business honcho's. It is not so that journo's have not tried, to tone down their critizsms, but if they do so there words are considered to be blunt, and journo's are branded as buyable elements in the whole system. Today when a contry is looking forward to great leaps and changes, newspapers are still forced to publish useless Page 3 material, articles of people who will leave this country if it needs them. Most of the front pages are made to report abt what Soniaji said to whom and what Varun is called as etc etc, when the whole political world knows that a major part of the Indian populace is just not intrested in voting. They are even bored of voting for the same monkey's. But I see no article by a reporter, who is motivating the populace to go ahead and vote still, as that is the only tool remaining in the hands of the citizens. Why? He has a editor tellign him, that thou he agrees, it is not a hot cake.
I might be going off track a bit. But how much ever a person writes, criticizes, nothing positive seems to be happening on any front. There have also be attempts at positive journalism, which would act as a motivation. But still it is to no avail.
Finally, it is quite human, if I'm not allowed to say what I feel I should, I know whatever is happening in front of me is wrong, but I fear reacting due some X factor, then one day I'm bound to burst !
Lets talk about Iraq. Before US entered Iraq, thou it was under a tyrant, it had runnign water, schools, even girls would get education without fear. Now there is no security, simple basic needs are difficult to get, the menace called Taliban is waiting for a chance to enter, and all this because one country decided that its buildings were bombed by terrorists so a country should be punished. WHY? What would you do if you were part of a country which was been punished??
I feel, what the Iraqi media person did and now what our person has done, is a reaction to pent up frustrations created due to unwanted allegations and loss of
basic needs, due to no fault of their own.
Regards
Omkar
2009/4/7 Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com >dear friends
Few minutes back today (7th april 2009), when Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram was addressing a Press Conference at Congress HQ at Delhi, a question was asked by one Jarnail Singh representing Dainik Jagran on the issue of 'clean chit' given to Jagadish Tytlar by CBI. The journalist was not convinced of the response given by the Home Minister and he started arguing in the Press Conference. Chidambaram was telling the journo not to argue, but only ask questions. Irked by the response of the Home Minister, the journalist threw the shoes on him. Fortunately, it did not fall on him, but fell slightly away. The journalist was taken away by the Security authorities for investigation.
Members may recall that similar incident happened during the visit of President Bush to Iraq. It is very sad that a new trend is showing up amongst the media. The jounalist covering the event may differ from the view of the authorities. His job is only to report the statement and to ask questions.
A communist oriented media person may cover the BJP or vice versa. The professional dharma is only to report as it is, even if they differ. The media can review the policies of ruling or opposition parties in their editorial columns or articles.
When I saw this incident live in the TV, i got really shocked. An Indian journalist throwing shoes on Indian Home Minister. In the Bush incident, Iraqi media person threw shoes on Bush.
In one of the ealier issues of our ezine PR-e-Sense, we published a cartoon drawn by Triambak Sharma. In that cartoon, the organisers were asking all media persons to remove the shoes and keep outside the press room. Though, it was meant for fun after Bush incident, i am afraid, the fun should not become reality.
I invite members to share the views.
Srinivasan
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