Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The Media

Recently, meaning within three four days, I saw an article in The Hindu. It was about a report of CAG on "The NDA regime".

This is a prime example of propoganda. That is feeding the public with terms which will define what they have to define for them. The reason why I feel so strongly for such an usage of words is just because of the fact that a democratically elected government is referred to as a regime.
I do totally agree to the fact that the NDA government did pretty undemocratic things in its time especially the gujrat riots.
But that doesnot give a newspaper correspondent any special rights to call them a regime. He can make a statement like that in a press briefing.
It is totally misleading because what is supposed to happen is like what the US media tried to project John Kerry as someone how they wanted to project him. These guys are getting away from it.
So my suggestion is we need to be armed with the fore knowledge that these media will try to use these cheap tricks to control the public. When I mean control i mean to control there opinion.
Beware and Be aware. Thats all.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

propaganda is an ancient phenomenon...log b4 ghosts n humans were made, god made propaganda. its here to stay.no need to vent ur aggression on de propagandists. 0:-)

11:11 PM  
Blogger aravind said...

God is made of propoganda. I agree.

11:15 PM  

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