A Brilliant Comment On An Article By Rajdeep Sardesai Of Ibn

November 4, 2012

There you go. Rajdeep and the so-called liberal media at it again - creating false equivalencies.
When Congress gets caught with a big scam, they try to find some allegation against BJP and debate 'Are all political parties corrupt today? or 'Are all Indians corrupt?' not differentiating that one is in power and the other is in opposition. The charge is about looting and misuse of public money that only people in power can do! Corruption is always top-down.
When someone points out Congress is a dynasty with servants and its laughable to see RG talk about meritocracy in youth congress, they debate ' Isn't Sangh parivar another dynasty? Aren't both BJP and Congress both dynastic in different ways?'
When Robert Vadra is caught looting because of his family connections. they try to dig up some dirt on BJP to make it all 'fair and equal'. Will they now dig up the ownership details of Young Indian as they did with Purti group? Of course not, they will go back to SRK new hair style, Amitabh Bacchan's cough, Yuvraj singh's mom and what not
When polls show Muslims are also trying to move on in Gujarat and are even supporting for Modi, they debate 'Are muslims in Guj so scared of modi that they are supporting him now?' And he has the bigotry to call him communal! You see, for him to be secular (being a 'liberal' and all), the people he bashes will have to be communal (and by insinuation 'medieval' and 'uncouth').
When Rahul Gandhi fails miserably in UP, the topic of debate is 'Is the UP electorate too casteist?'. So if cong fails, its because of casteist and communal narrow minded electorate?
Sagarika Ghose wants to debate 'Is Modi PM material'. Rightly Swapan asked 'shouldn't we have a neutral anchor instead of a Modi Hater?'. Fellow IBN propagandist Mr. Chaubey tweets, 'are there any?'. Our Indian media has become so embedded in the govt that they forget they are actually supposed to moderate and not be a lawyer for one party. if that is their passion, they should just be a spokesman or be a participant in the debate instead of pretensions of moderating.
Modi says 'people close to the Congress party are all making crores of rupees. Even a girl friend of an MP made 50 cr. Think how much others are making!' and the debate is ' does Modi hate women?' instead of asking her about the sweat equity and a simple question like 'Sonia gandhi earlier removed Shashi because of the corruption allegations, has he been cleared? what the source of that money that you had?' I can give you some ideas Rajdeep. why don't you debate 'Does Modi hate rich women?' Is Modi bitter because he didn't get to open an IPL team?'
This same Sunanda was bashed in 2010. Now she is kosher because they can use her to bash Modi. Wow!
One of my old bosses asked me in a moment of frank conversation,'tell me, what do you think ails our company, be very honest'. I told him 'its you, you lack leadership, risk taking and communication'. My boss didn't like it but he probably wanted to just hear 'what other than me is the problem with this company?'.
That's the language of the celeb media today. They don't get it that its their bigotry, biases, and acting like govt PR, false binary debates (as we saw during FDI 'are you for FDI or are you against progress?') the reason for their criticism. They keep looking outside for what ails English media today.

Dr. Swamy asked a good question in the interview last night on CNN IBN 'why is it that Kejriwal gets so much air time but not him (Swamy) when he made the same allegations about Vadra?'. So it proves again that its the person and the not the subject matter.
They reluctantly gave voice to Swamy probably because of the pressure from Social media.
Don't get me started on their self-serving moniker 'liberal media'. They are hardly liberal. They somehow think as they speak in English, they are somehow more progressive, modern and the 'live and let live' kind of liberal minded. Ironically the 'liberal media' lives in a tiny bubble of self-serving delusions and is the least open minded. The traditional Right in the West was associated with dogmatic traditional values and the Left evolved as an alternative. That paradigm when applied to a country like India looks ridiculous since the Right in india is actually more liberal, open minded, understanding, and pluralistic because of the uniqueness of Hindu thought where 'experience is central, skepticism integral, text subservient, and belief voluntary'.
As Left in the West is associated with the word liberal (contrasting with the anti-science, pro-church Right), our English media would like to think they too being Left by inference 'liberal minded'. The Indian right is more accurately described as the 'Liberal right' though I would probably prefer to avoid the whole left/right paradigm as it evolved in a different context. its again ironical since I hear there is some church ownership of many English media channels!

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