The people of karnataka gave a clear mandate to Yeddi and Co to cleanse the mud that his predecessors have thrown and give a clean govt. Not to throw more of his own. Yeddi’s personal priorites, his family interference, party’s spineless central leadership (leadership really????), Reddy’s dissidence, irresponsible Opposition…all have contributed to the present choas. Karnataka politics once known for its decency has reached a situation where we have to search for those attributes. This aritcle is directed against those arguments which constantly talk abt media’s biased approach towards Bjp and its affiliates. I am not pro or anti to any party…neither i am secularist nor a fundamentalist… My mind is not influenced by any “ism”s….I just talk my mind…
The most repetitive argument I have come across nowadays is “I am not supporting yeddi ..he shud be punished but what i am against is the biased approach of the media towards him”. The moment you add a “but” in the sentence the former part of the sentence loses its significance and the latter assumes it.It shows that you are more concerned for the latter not the former. I cant understand why dont you take the statement of Digvijay in the same spirit when he says “We are investigating the mumbai blasts “but” we are not ruling out the possibility of hindu fundamentalist’s hands in it”.Why are you biased now????whats the difference between you and Digvijay then?
Thats where I am worried. Instead of focusing on the real issues which needs immediate priority you are focusing on something else. A clear case of misplaced priorities.Lets assume for a moment that media is unbiased and they do not give “more” priority to yeddi’s scam which is “small” compared to other congressmen’s. Whats going to change??? Apart from giving a emotional satisfaction that this party is not the only corrupt what change its going to bring in? does it change the Millions of people’s lives which are affected by these scams and corruptions? No…… just pure pleasure that I am not alone…
When Nityananda’s scandal came to light he recieved the highest coverage with channels running the show for several months. He was targetted for months together and people supported that campaign.. reason…the preachings of nityananda did not match with his doings…same thing applies to Bjp too…Before they speak they start with phrases like “country first”, “bharatmata”, “janmabhoomi”, “bhagavadgeetha” and all highly regarded principles.. when you talk lot of ideals thousands of eyes will be watching each and every step and they will always be scrutinizing to find some or the other weakness which can be projected to defy you and your principles. This is natural tendency. On the other hand congressmen never talk about such high ideals at all..infact their PM does not even talk…all of them been outsourced to its mouthpiece Digvijay…People will be more pissed off when they see a saint doing the crime than a seasoned criminal doing the same.Who is trying to be saint here??? Bjp or Congress???
One of the main repurcussion of media’s biased approach is the formation of public opinion against that person and the subsequent electroral mandate against him. If that is the case Vajepaayi shud not have lost the elections when “india was shining”, Modi should not have won for another term “post Godhra” and S M krishna would not have lost when “Bengaluru was on its way to become Singapore”. The public opinion is not formed on the basis of media reports.They are formed on the basis of comman man’s problems and sufferings and what is the feel good factor he is having. BJP came to power in karnataka not beacuse media just ‘showed’ kumaraswamy as the “vachanabrashta” but ‘he was one’ and people sensed it.
Some supporters of BJP are so deeply immersed in accusations against media that they fail to recognize one character who was targeted the most brutally by the same biased media and went on to any levels to supress him but he did not just manage to survive it , rather came out triumphant against them , Mr. Narendra Modi. Initially he confronted any barkings against him but soon realized that a counter barking against barking does no good and chose to remain silent and mind his work(Example: when he walked out of Karan Thapar’s devil advocate due to karan’s incessant mentioning of post godhra riots). The man who was so vulnerable to media’s allegation and accusation today stands in a position where the same media thinks twice before commenting on him. They might not be praising all his development work but neither they are denouncing!!!!coz he has not given any chance for them!!!!!Absolute no chance!!!!!!! But believe me yeddi gave plenty of them!!!!!!!!
Media is absolutely biased no doubt in that. We need to understand the fact that they are business organisations. They care only about profitablity (like any other profession)not on the accountability of the facts they show.They choose..to show what they want. Having said that, perhaps this is not the time we focus our energy and critisims on how media works but to focus it on the culprits. Everyone agrees that yeddi has done wrong things..everyone agrees that he shud be punished….everyone agrees that the image of Karnataka and its politics are ruined…everyone agrees that there is solid evidences to back all these allegations….Then why are you shifting against the media… If the other congressmen are involved in corruption then launch a separate protest. Dont combine that with Yeddi’s case because it gives a feeling that you support yeddi and his corruptions. The media will interpret the same way and again you have to raise voice against its bias and this loops forever.
On the lighter side (To all those are up against media)
No matter how much you create noise the media is not going to change the way it is functioning. Accept it…So the options in-front of you are…
1. Fund the same media and make them your agents – This is not possible because in money power you cant match congress inspite of these reddy and yeddi scams. They are no.1 in that.
2. Provide them the best ad deals which they cant refuse (God Father style) – again not possible!!!!
3. Set up your own channels and newspapers make them the leading dailys – Forget it!!!!!
So When you cant make any of them either keep quiet or force the leaders to mend their ways. Because, it looks so funny seeing you fighting media and their corrupt and dishonest practices on behalf of the most corrupted men.