Friday, September 16, 2011

In response to the media coverage of Anna Hazare's fast our most revered Prime Minister is to set up a group to study media accountability. TOI, Friday, September 2. One minister bitterly complained," Was Anna Hazare's agitation the only thing happening in the country. Certainly not. There were the 2G, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Society scams, terrorist attack on the High Court, uncontrolled inflation and other ills plaguing the country because of a clueless Congress led government. A few days ago Anna Hazare was being interviewed on 3 different news channels in english. The questions were virtually the same. Is your agitation not against the democracy? Is the parliament not supreme? Are you being supported by the BJP? Where is your money coming from? What if the Lok Pal bill is not to your liking and so on. Not only were the questions the same but they were in almost the same sequence and the anchors kept glancing off camera as if to read the next question from a prompter. Two men and one woman asking the same questions. Anyone else would have been incensed in having to answer the same slanted questions time after time but not Anna Hazare. He repeated his answers calmly, with good humor and with enormous patience. That surely makes him a saint. No democratic country in the world has such a footlicking media protecting the Congress by constantly attacking the BJP, presenting one sided stories and with outright lies. Still the Congress is not satisfied. It wants complete control over the media so that it can continue to rape the country as it has been doing for the last 60 years. That is why the people are very angry.

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