06-03-2007, 07:29 AM
Wish of the elite
All the news channels - CNN-IBN, Channel 7, Times Now, NDTV 24X7, NDTV-India, Star News, India TV - were proved wrong on May 11, 2007.
All channel proprietors, heads, anchors, experts and input providers should have called a Press conference in the evening to offer their apologies to the nation for running a hung Assembly campaign. Exposed, they returned to their hideouts without any discernible reproach.
The CNN-IBN and Channel 7 told viewers without any sense of self-confessed disgrace or penitence, that they were nearest to the truth - that they had predicted 160-168 seats for BSP. But, did they ever append a caveat that their 160-168 prediction came on the night of May 8, when the last vote was cast.
Did CNN-IBN remind the viewers that they were the leaders in unleashing a hung house campaign on March 27, 2007 predicting the Samajwadi Party getting 155 and the BSP 150 seats?
This is not only about the news channels. It is also about individuals involved in hung House campaign. It is also a case of news channel operatives playing to political galleries and enhancing their careers.
It is all about Indian elite's enduring gracelessness. The news channel operatives are no individuals speaking for themselves. They are the representatives of India's elite.
What if the people of UP were to authorise the elite to select a Government for the State? Who would they pick? Would the BSP with Mayawati as Chief Minister have been their decree? We know what the answer would be. The problem is much graver than what we comprehend. The problem is seeded within the conscience of the elite.
Can for instance, these news channels, tell us the number of Dalits in their journalistic club? If and probably none, then India is suffering from a split-consciousness crisis.
As the country's logical consciousness pilot, the elite is failing all.
The elite's tragedy gets compounded by a variety of factors - most notably, its lack of possessing any rational history.
India's elite didn't come into being through any serious process of social transformation.
The existing elite are an outcome of the privileges-transfers phenomenon where their ancestors didn't have to work, yet, presided over privileges. India's caste order gave them everything they desired.
With the passage of time and growth of urban civilisation, the elite's successive generations were shipped from the noxious past into the present.
Tied like cattle in containers, the elite didn't have to move on their own or participate in any cutthroat race. It just got ferried from one warehouse to another.
The formation of elite elsewhere, Europe or the US for instance, occurred through a painstaking social renovation where the past was defeated and dismantled.
The elite in these societies thus, emerged from a baggage free past. The evolution of India's elite couldn't follow that logical trajectory.
Since evolution of the Indian elite didn't occur through any social transformation, the present day elite are self-condemned in carrying the baggage of the past. As the product of the privileges-transfers phenomenon, the Indian elite can't even comprehend that they remain pulverised by any civilisation regulated baggage.
Consciousness rooted deep into the past, the elite keep celebrating mandate of the past.
In the sleepy consciousness of the elite, the State's desegregation mandate remains an alien object. This is a negative symptom for a healthy nation.
As the unstated representatives of the entire elite, all the seven news channels were in fact, articulating the wish of the past while running the hung House campaign.
In doing so, the elite didn't know as what they were doing. Traumatised by the mandate of modernity and of de-segregating society, the elite are not even prepared to reform. Sadly, the elite's servility to the past is not good for the future of the country.
All the news channels - CNN-IBN, Channel 7, Times Now, NDTV 24X7, NDTV-India, Star News, India TV - were proved wrong on May 11, 2007.
All channel proprietors, heads, anchors, experts and input providers should have called a Press conference in the evening to offer their apologies to the nation for running a hung Assembly campaign. Exposed, they returned to their hideouts without any discernible reproach.
The CNN-IBN and Channel 7 told viewers without any sense of self-confessed disgrace or penitence, that they were nearest to the truth - that they had predicted 160-168 seats for BSP. But, did they ever append a caveat that their 160-168 prediction came on the night of May 8, when the last vote was cast.
Did CNN-IBN remind the viewers that they were the leaders in unleashing a hung house campaign on March 27, 2007 predicting the Samajwadi Party getting 155 and the BSP 150 seats?
This is not only about the news channels. It is also about individuals involved in hung House campaign. It is also a case of news channel operatives playing to political galleries and enhancing their careers.
It is all about Indian elite's enduring gracelessness. The news channel operatives are no individuals speaking for themselves. They are the representatives of India's elite.
What if the people of UP were to authorise the elite to select a Government for the State? Who would they pick? Would the BSP with Mayawati as Chief Minister have been their decree? We know what the answer would be. The problem is much graver than what we comprehend. The problem is seeded within the conscience of the elite.
Can for instance, these news channels, tell us the number of Dalits in their journalistic club? If and probably none, then India is suffering from a split-consciousness crisis.
As the country's logical consciousness pilot, the elite is failing all.
The elite's tragedy gets compounded by a variety of factors - most notably, its lack of possessing any rational history.
India's elite didn't come into being through any serious process of social transformation.
The existing elite are an outcome of the privileges-transfers phenomenon where their ancestors didn't have to work, yet, presided over privileges. India's caste order gave them everything they desired.
With the passage of time and growth of urban civilisation, the elite's successive generations were shipped from the noxious past into the present.
Tied like cattle in containers, the elite didn't have to move on their own or participate in any cutthroat race. It just got ferried from one warehouse to another.
The formation of elite elsewhere, Europe or the US for instance, occurred through a painstaking social renovation where the past was defeated and dismantled.
The elite in these societies thus, emerged from a baggage free past. The evolution of India's elite couldn't follow that logical trajectory.
Since evolution of the Indian elite didn't occur through any social transformation, the present day elite are self-condemned in carrying the baggage of the past. As the product of the privileges-transfers phenomenon, the Indian elite can't even comprehend that they remain pulverised by any civilisation regulated baggage.
Consciousness rooted deep into the past, the elite keep celebrating mandate of the past.
In the sleepy consciousness of the elite, the State's desegregation mandate remains an alien object. This is a negative symptom for a healthy nation.
As the unstated representatives of the entire elite, all the seven news channels were in fact, articulating the wish of the past while running the hung House campaign.
In doing so, the elite didn't know as what they were doing. Traumatised by the mandate of modernity and of de-segregating society, the elite are not even prepared to reform. Sadly, the elite's servility to the past is not good for the future of the country.