12th January happens to be Swami Vivekanand jayanti, and is celebrated in our country as National Youth Day. You can't open a newspaper on 14th Feb and not know that it's Valentine's Day. However you won't find a sentence in today's paper that says it's a National Youth Day, because it's Vivekanand jayanti. Such is the media. So be it! We know better than having expectations from the media. Enough of complaining. Instead, here's a good quote from the Swami Vivekanand:
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God."
Where is the News?
A lot is said about the prolifiration of news channels in our country in the last decade. However I know very few tv channels that broadcast news. Most of the so-called "news channels" broadcast propoganda. Propoganda with an shockingly unabashed political bias. Free media in our country means freedom to the media to spread misinformation and lies.
What is true about tv channels is also true about the print medium. The media seem to have sold themselves to a particular political ideology, party or family. The worst thing about it is the absolute lack of introspection, and the hypocracy about the nobility of the profession. Rarely does one read an article questioning the media's role in the current state of affairs of the country.
What is true about tv channels is also true about the print medium. The media seem to have sold themselves to a particular political ideology, party or family. The worst thing about it is the absolute lack of introspection, and the hypocracy about the nobility of the profession. Rarely does one read an article questioning the media's role in the current state of affairs of the country.
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