Monday, December 1, 2008

Guided Media

The phrase "Guided Media" is a commonly used and often misunderstood term. It clearly means when the public media viz newspapers , TV shows whats not real or informaiton which is cautiously curbed to give an alltogether meaning to something. I remember watching Russell Peters show and just the others night he was giving an example how media impacts your mind. He said that these people are not going to tell everything instead will make us to go to conclusions- like a bomb attack is shown and with it a picture of an arab! The abnormality of facts is directly construed by the ways they are presented. As improptu it may seem , its true.

A similar incident happened with the Mumbai terror attack. While the 100 new channels were showing something else , the incident proved to be something else. All the news channels repoted the government stats of people killed , injured as 183 and 370 respectively. But one must never forget that congress is about to go into an election and any such attack has to prove as a fatal blow to their already derelicted publicity campaign. With CM like Vilasrao Deshmukh visiting the Taj Hotel with Ram Gopal Verma(contract 2 or aag 2 or d-company 2 on his mind!!), the sentiments swung against him. One must not forget Mr 'previous' Home Minister- MR Patil (he deserves to be mocked in a separate blog entry..I promise you all guys that) spilling statements that have no meaning or inferred a wrong meaning in right place (in wrong place at right time).
Now all the govt can do is a cover up. Can anyone explain me why were 400 NSG commandos called if it was so trivial incident. One must also remember 200 army trucks carrying army people at the scene. A clear cover up was planned - according to one of the domestic newspapers of Maharashtra, the expected deaths exceeded 1000 and similar no of people were injured.

A common sense if any such thing is not taken care by govt at ths point of time then the consequences would have proved fatal( which might just prove in Delhi polls). I don't support BJP or Maya madam , all I am asking is a clarity of thoughts in everybody's mind. Mind if I ask you all not to see too much of news channels (Tarot or BABAs in the morning and serial murderers at night).

This blog is dedicated to rational thinking.

TIME TO GROW UP GUYS!!!

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