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Media Wants Riots: Why Indians are Protesting Bias and Sensationalism in Media

These last few months of media reporting in and on India are sounding ominously like the media climate in America in the period between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq. There is blood and fire in the air and on the ground, and a gloomy atmosphere of even more death and destruction to come. There is a sense of righteousness and justice at work in the passions that these media narratives arouse and stoke, too. But most of all, there is the utter lack of credibility, balance and a sense of honor for truth in all of this idealistic talk.

In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef.

In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar where there was no Bharatiya Janata Party, cow slaughter was still banned and there were times when there would be conflicts over beef and policemen would visit homes.

Beef conflicts are not new to contemporary India. Cows are not slaughtered across the Islamic world, but the reason cows are slaughtered mostly in the Indian Subcontinent is because Indian Islamists introduced the practice of cow slaughter here as a challenge to Hindu religious practice of worshiping cows.

Fikr-e-Nau (New Thinking), a newly launched Urdu magazine published by Pakistani Marxists – explores the issue of cow slaughter (a translation will be published soon by the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute).

You can look further back into history.

Is India an outraged nation?Or a nation in perpetual state of outrage

Blocked by NDTV, now this is a unique situation, one can understand a person being blocked by another for being abusive or argumentative. Wonder since when organization have developed sensitivities and how I managed to hurt their finer feeling through my tweets? The other important aspect is that charges are being paid to cable operator for receiving NDTV signals.

What makes NDTV so insecure? Why this paranoia being displayed by NDTV? Has the credibility deficit been transferred from staffer to organization? What will this achieve? Is the channel now caught in a downward spiral? Mistakes inadvertent or deliberate are on the rise, have been duly noted and recorded. The issue will remain and will have to be confronted by the channel, blocking solves nothing.

Last Saturday I was motoring along blissfully on twitter the day had been one of leisurely pace Presidential polls was the all consuming topic, then in the evening there was a this tweet from NDTV. 

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persecution in Eritrea and Myanmar and Bangladesh, and so on. ... out and refusing to accept even a remotely sufficient number of them for ... the war in Afghanistan and the persecution of theRohingya minority in ... Assad deliberately targeted Syria's SunniMuslim majority, civilian and rebel alike.

Will soli sorabjee succeed in restoring the missing credibility of ndtv by being their poster boy a la Gandhi for congress.

Credibility  and ndtv are again juxtaposed, not for the first or the last time. This is going to happen as long as ndtv is in existence. This channel and it’s personnel have worked very hard to earn this unshakable reputation of being not just liars, rumor mongers of the worst kind. Credibility is a word which they have not heard.

We will have to give credit to this goebbels factory setting up an in house ethics committee with sonia singh as it’s head , also inducting soli sorabjee as an independent lokpal for certifying quality of content. Now what compelled mr. soli sorabjee to accept such a role with the worst channel in India only he can answer? Why did he walk in with both eyes wide open to become the Gandhi of ndtv? Our apprehension is he will suffer the same fate that Gandhi has at the hands of congress.a mature and seasonsed person as mr.soli sorabjee is also not going to be sufficient to revive this criminal channel, mr. arun jaitley may appear on this channel and can also delay the case, users of social media are unanimous in their verdict on ndtv. It’s a corrupt, anti India channel which merits an immediate shut down.

Sonia singh may have earned a lot of  political brownie point for her husband RPN singh in congress ex-MOS HOME of upa with her diatribe against India and bjp govt at UNESCO. Those who betray their country on any international forum are loathed in their own country of origin as by all foreigners.

Other interesting conversation was between nikhil wagle and vikram Chandra here again, nikhil accused vikram of censoring his comments on big fight.nmajority of social media user abhorre ndtvand stay away from it. Credibility does matter mr. vikram Chandra has experienced this previously when most of us refused to appear on his show fearing distortion of views , censorship and missing credibility of ndtv.

Will soli sorabjee succeed in restoring the missing credibility by being their poster boy a la Gandhi for congress.

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