Friday, January 3, 2014

Propoganda journalism

Where is the journalism?? News anchors (more specifically English ones) – are just a bunch of propaganda artists.
-          What about ground reporting?? Since 15 days, all they are talking and discussing about is Kejriwal? There were 4 other (bigger/ more important) states that went for elections?? There was Chattisgarh, where people walked for kilometres to cast their vote, do those voters and their reasonings and their choices don’t matter? What about Mizoram, where INC has been re-elected nth time, and its repercussions on North East voters?
-          Channels are comfortably spending 98% of their time footage on Studio debates. Easy recipe is to invite a dozen ‘selected’ speakers on a propaganda topic of ‘channel’s choice’ – the latest one being Kejriwal...
-          There is hardly any width and depth in the news? There are only views.... views of a bunch of same 30 faces (who keep juggling channels), who keep commenting on topics, whether or not there are knowledgeable about those...
-          India as per them (as per weightage assigned by them) is just Delhi and Mumbai, occasionally Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderbad, Chennai might find a mention if lucky....

-          Mood of the people of Delhi is being extrapolated to mood of the nation – is it?? Really?? Or are the channels carrying an agenda to carve that mood?? Where is the journalism?? Its all propaganda?? Isn’t it????