If they can set their agenda, you can choose your media

If they can set their agenda, you can choose your media
By Rupang Bhatt
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 16th of March, 2009



You watched the exaggerated massala mixed khichdi of Arun Jaitley vs Sudhanshu Mittal on news channels? If you did, you wasted your time and if you didn’t, congratulation. In this election season, the leftist-pseudo secular and Congress dominated media will continue to do everything that they can to make the BJP upset, weaker, and while doing this, the persons they are targeting are Arun Jaitley and Narendra Modi because as of now both of them have emerged as the main pillars of the BJP’s targeted success in Lok Sabha elections.

In the morning, first it was one news channel that started highlighting Arun Jaitley’s absence in the important party meeting. This channel highlighted the news for half an hour, speculating on the possible reasons for Jaitley’s absence quoting the sources. Soon after this, other news channels too jumped in and then the issue continued for a day and more out of proportion. The fact was that Arun Jaitley was present at Advani’s residence at the time of the meeting in question. Even if there was something fishy, the media seemed over enthusiastic in projecting this issue.

Arun Jaitley is BJP’s Pramod Mahajan for the Lok Sabha elections 2009 and therefore the media will continue to drag him into every possible controversy; be it factual or fictitious, real or created, simple or exaggerated.

Similar is the case of Narendra Modi. The section of media will continue to be loud at him for any reason, because he has emerged as a single strong threat to the Congress and the left.

You remember how Delhi’s pro-Congress media covered Narendra Modi’s Vibrant Gujarat Summit success? They just highlighted ‘Modi as PM’ issue quoting couple of business honchos. Perhaps a section of media controlled by the Congress sympathizers wanted to create a rift between Advani and Modi to make BJP weaker but they failed. Now the same media has started working on another line. They project Modi as Advani’s successor if not an option for now. Perhaps to create a rift in second generation of the BJP.

When Narendra Modi said “the nation desperately wants to come out of one family’s rule” referring to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in one of the rallies he addressed in Maharashtra, majority of the media, omitted this part of the speech and diverted the story to another line creating a controversy on Modi’s remarks that the Mumbai attacks were not possible without inside help.

When Modi, in another speech spoke about how poorly the Congress party performed in local body by-elections just after Rahul Gandhi’s visit in the state, the media did neither highlight it nor mention it. The whole media diverted the things on Modi’s “Aquarium fish” remark in the same speech. That too without any context to project Modi as a cheap talker.

If you are fed up enough with so much leftist, pseudo secular, pro-Congress, biased, loyal to Gandhi-Nehru family part of the Indian media, try out the options given below and tell maximum people about them. Remember, if they can set their agenda, you can choose your media:

Newspaper: The Pioneer

This daily publishes really excellent political content. It has so much that no other media covers. If you are from one of the cities where it is available in print, please book your copy now. If you are an online junky, keep reading it through the website where E-Paper is also available after brief registration process.

Magazine:Organiser

For brain storming on issues of national interest, read Organiser, mouth piece of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. You can also read Panchajanya Hindi magazine.

Blog:Offstumped

Offstumped intelligently discusses the issues of national interests. Satyabhashnam is also an interesting effort. Swapan Dasgupta’s new blog is also interesting.

Websites

Hindu Janjagruti Sangathan’s website is really good on Hindusim related issues, for anything on BJP, you can visit lkadvani.in. And yes, DeshGujarat is always there for anything that is Gujarat related.


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