01-11-2008, 07:34 AM
<b>TV CHANNEL OR CHURCH AGENT </b>
Every profession owes certain responsibilities and an ethical commitment to the society. In the case of mass media the responsibilities and ethical commitments are multiplied, because they shoulder the responsibility of unfolding the truth.
Hence their version has to be impartial, unbiased and at the same time should be beneficial for the mass. It is also most important that the truth should be seen from the angle of one's own country and its culture, not from the angle of an alien.
<b>But the mass media of India are unique. Most of them feel they are beyond every boundary of responsibility. They are above all accountability. They are free to write or speak anything and everything they wish and have no commitment to the society or anybody in it. They need not have any ethics at all. </b>
Examples are abundant everyday in the print and electronic media. Most of the 'media-men' have become 'middlemen'. Their endeavour is not to express the truth but to campaign for some party, some individual or some institutions obviously by which or by whom they are gratified.
The recent incident was a programme on the unrest in Kandhamala in the NDTV on 9.1.2008 at 10.00 PM ("In the name of God "). The programme started with a picture of a burning cross, obviously hinting to violence against Christianity. As if no violence was done to Hindus.
The anchor told that the problem in Kandhamala started with an incident when the Christians erected a structure and the Hindus objected to it. The fact that the structure was constructed on the ground where the statue of Goddess Durga is erected every year was cleverly concealed by her.
Again she mentioned with a very mild tone that 'the vehicle of Swami Laksmanananda' was attacked when he came to Brahmanigaon. Very misleadingly, she did not mention who attacked it and where exactly it was attacked. Again, very cleverly she added "why the Swami was going to the place?"
Here also she very deceptively concealed the fact that Swami Laksmanananda was attacked 'unprovoked' when he was at a distance of fifty kilometers from the Brahmanigaon ( where the Hindu-Christian strife had taken place).
Throughout the whole programme there were hundreds of pictures showing the damages done to the Christians and no expression of any damage done to the Hindu. Of course in the whole episode, once, for one or two seconds one Hindu lady was shown crying. But no mention relating to her damage was pronounced by the anchor. <b>The anchor very cunningly concealed the fact that the Hindus have sustained equal or more damage in comparison to the Christians and the first man who was killed was a Hindu, murdered by the Christians</b>. The Hindus, in the programme were pictured as villains and Orissa was painted as place filled with Hindu extremists. The Christians were pictured as an innocent lot being tortured by the Hindus mainly by the Sangh Parivar. The conversion was depicted as an outstanding benevolence extended by the Church.
At the end, of course, a few reluctant words slipped out of the anchor's mouth about Christians' violence. <b>But that was, she explained, an inevitable act of revenge to answer the Hindu atrocity and violence. </b>
The TV channel behaved not as a media but an agent of the Church heavily paid to campaign for it.
My earnest prayer, therefore, to the lovers of Hinduism and lovers of India to wage a war against such villainy of the mass media. Please write in thousands to the NDTV about its notoriety. At the same time please write to other papers and expose NDTV's real hypocrisy.
Whenever there is any anti-Hindu or anti-Indian item in any of the print or electronic media we shall have to write thousands of letters to different news papers and magazines and expose them. We have to write to the concerned Ministry to ban such news channels which propagate lies and tarnish the picture of the country in the world.
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