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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Democracy under threat




In author’s words ‘It’s the best of times. It’s the worst of times’…on one front India is emerging as unyielding economy, playing its own card in international forums, becoming potential player in world power game; while other side of the picture is sheer disgraceful. Time and again different political parties took up charge (if not for our development) to gag media, if any channel or newspaper dares to criticize their acts. IBN Lokmat office in Mumbai & Pune was not the first instance where journalists had to face vandalism…history says media has always been the soft target.

The country which is widening its horizon by giving acquiescence to transsexuals, where civil society becomes vocal after Mumbai terror attack & shown remarkable protest against the authority, incidents like this where political goons attack media personnel, denuded internal incompetence of political structure of India. Several times before IBN incident media has been attacked…why Govt. has not taken any stern steps? How can the political thugs just enter into an office & destroy everything? Where was the police?

You might play the same old card by proclaiming that media sensationalize issues, media doesn’t play neutral game and so on…I say, you need to hold on there. If I take side of any political party, if I give hype to any issues for commercial gain…does that empower you to stifle my voice?

We can’t question the authority, we can’t criticize any political party, we can’t do our job and we can’t ask for security…no matter what ever is written in our constitution regarding freedom of speech & expression, if we are in media…sorry, we are not allowed to use our constitutional rights. Right??

5 comments:

dipu said...

ya true....

dipu said...

ya true....

Unknown said...

Democracy is not only under threat rather it is the "Death of democracy". Shiv sena constantly screamed and argued to be the rescuer of the Marathi manoos but they are the real culprit of this whole issue. The problem arises because every party heeds to these kinds of violence at sometime or the other in their political growth sphere.... So it’s truly a question of who's the cleaner/uglier of the lot??? There are innumerable instances where journalists are singled out or random journalists of specific media houses are targeted by political goons for the stories done on their respective channels/publications. It is absolutely impossible for the media organization to protect an individual journalist. And finally when some media organization does raise its voice... the results are truly before your eyes...Taking strict action against the local boys is not the ultimate solution, however seizing the large perpetrators who sent them forward should be the key intention of the government.......

mkg.durgapur said...

Great!!!! Cheers!

Mangal said...

Agree with you. Absolutely. Thanks for writing the post..