Thursday, April 9, 2009

Is Indian Media too biased

I have just put following post on IBNLive.com, I am almost sure of this not being allowed to appear on their website. If it does appear Kudos to IBN, or else they should just revisit the concept of freedom of speech.

If this topic appears, means that Indian Media really cares for freedom of speech.

I have suggested this topic, as while browsing through the various Indian News channels and Websites, I found a strange similarity that is an anti BJP and stron Pro Congress views expressed by all the bloggers, and commenters.

Take the case of Sanjay Jha's Latest Blog on Ibnpolitics.com about Mr. Rahul Gandhi. I do not know how can someone boast of a democracy with dominance of one family. I just wanted to compare the views expressed by Rajdeep on Varun issue and on D Srinivasan (If you don't know, he made similar statement as that by Varun but this the tables were turned). Or a debate topic on BJP's manifesto, the topic of the debate itself is biased, shouldn't it have been Comparison of Manifestos of BJP and congress instead asking if BJP's one is more xyz.

If I browse through India Media sites, it gives me a strange feeling that BJP is a pathetic party without any support at least among the educated class, but the max thumbs up on IBNlive are for Advani. When I browse through Orkut in any Community I find more Pro BJP people, is Indian Media not allowing even the people to express their views freely. Media companies always cry for the freedom of expression, I feel that should be applied to them as well. If we are allowed to protest against government on a road built by government, we should be allowed to debate about the role of Media on a Media website as well.

1 comment:

idealsoul said...

Indian media is not only biased but a killer. see todays news conference of jagdish titler. before his speech i thought he is culprit. but if it is true what he said "13000 or so affidavits there is nowhere his name" and so on he is brutally killed (careerwise) by media. there are many cases like this where media makes a hero or zero of any person. what i worry is one day entire nation will be hijacked by these media persons for only money. till now for gods sake it is affecting only upperclassess and beurocracy.
It is surely biased when media plays video tape only for a day or two about telagi telling names of bhujbal and pawar.
this media created new actress ? / entertainer? Rakhi Sawant.