Mushrooms of critical danger; Politics through Media

Present cocktail of pseudo news channels in India, better denoted as overall electronic media, appears to be morally less substantial and more interested in using the “Short cut propaganda machinery”, developed by them, to stir the mass in the direction they wish. Before their commercial intentions were in question, now their malicious political propaganda are also flaring in the eyes of think-tanks of society at various strata.

Accusations and proofs have been corroborated for many news channels for being driven by the funds perfused by political powers. The right wing of Indian polity RSS, BJP and its related organizations are registering their complaints on social flora by invoking agitations in the minds of mass about serial, targeted, odd and extremely notorious in nature, so called “sting operations”. The latest being a conversation among a few individuals, happen to be part of their organization, talking about taking revenge from muslims and trying to wage violence against those who have brutally murdered not only the morals of humankind but also the freedom of living peacefully while practicing one's religion of choice. Such conversations have contrasting properties of being utterly wrong and quite natural, so I strongly believe, this is a failure of both “religious and political leadership” of this country. Islam has to filter the bad elements out with constant, devoted and scrupulous attempts else such conversations are already showing signs of greater resentment among other religions and can be transformed into extremely undesirable consequences. The biased media coverage, stings without proper proof and then for political propaganda, TRP, commercial interests, putting them on air without proper assessment of what risk they hail, is careless as well as hazardous for the unity of our country.

This phenomenon isn’t new, as historically the media-systems were created by the governments or politically active groups but there was a time in between, when in the “democratically” ruled parts of the world, the dictum was an impartial media that now seems to be a highly corrupt aspect for the Democratic freedom. Political parties must communicate with people using their own stamp unambiguously so that democracy is transparent; using such an insult must never be practiced and ought to be relegated by the citizens out rightly. We hope, media personnel and the folk in general will understand the need of keeping their thinking broader while perceiving the gist out of these "mushrooms of critical danger."

Devashish Narayana Mishra.