PM and The Biased Media

After watching the PM’s performance in front of the handpicked TV reporters, the BJP leaders must be saying the following:

“Hum aah bhee bharte hain toh ho jaate hain badnaam,
Who qatl bhee karte hain toh charcha nahin hota”

This was the kind of performance, which is known as a career killer in western democracies. But not in India. Here the PM was still getting support from the media. Instead of pointing out the indecisiveness and the non-answers, we got to hear platitudes like “PM was sincere but not convincing” and "Singh shines but PM so-so". The reporters and we must have watched different interviews because the one we saw, he was neither shining nor sincere. Convincing was not even a consideration. All we got to hear was various versions of “it’s not my fault” statement. He blamed the media (which is his biggest friend), his own party people, coalition partners and of course his favorite whipping boys, the BJP and Gujarat CM (of course the attack was a snide reference). Even after all that, the media is willing to give this man a pass. If this were a BJP PM who was heading the most corrupt government in the history and cut such a sorry picture, they would have skewered him. How do I know this? Well, look at the way they are still targeting the only functional and the most successful state government in India and its CM (Gujarat). If you are a Hindu nationalist and you find a cure for cancer, bring peace in the world and eradicate hunger in one day and yet you will be faulted for something or the other. On the other hand, if you fit their warped definition of a secular person (read pro-religious minority and anti Hindu) they will go all out for you as we are seeing here.
The Indian media is one of the most biased in the civilized world. It is their duty to tell the public the unvarnished truth and not their opinion. What we get in the Indian papers is an almost amnesic coverage of news. The worst by the Congress and other pseudo-secular parties gets a pass while conservative cannot do anything right. Barring a couple of news outlets, none of them tell the real truth. They tell you what they want you to hear. Major media houses are owned by people with their own political agendas. Between them and reporters like Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi, what chance do we have of getting to know the truth?
We need to reject these corrupt politicos and their media supporters with extreme prejudice if we want to have a healthy and a forward-looking democracy.

Singh shines but PM so-so
If Manmohan Singh the man came across as sincere, unafraid, well-meaning, the Prime Minister of India, some of his answers indicated, was often helpless and hemmed in — buffeted by forces that were beyond his ken, outside his grasp.
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