Media and 'Post Truth'

As much as I believe that BJP has not been any different when it comes to pampering minorities (to this day it continues all the invidious schemes initiated by UPA favoring Xtians and Mus), it is equally true that the appeasement policy of BJP towards minorities has not really changed the partisan attitude of media, both domestic and foreign, towards it. Goes to show that even if BJP bends backwards to please the minorities, the hit job against it will continue.


https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/dear-media-what-was-that-about-post-truth-again

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.” Having heard the terms ‘intolerance’, ‘fascism’ and ‘Emergency’ being bandied fast and loose, not on fair grounds of suspicions but on whims of some journalists fancying themselves as ‘liberals’ and ‘seculars’, it appears that they have learnt their lessons in propaganda from Hitler’s manual.Not bothering to wait for the veracity of the facts to be ascertained or considering restraint in the usage of certain terms, this section of media has thrown all caution to winds. But, as the manual elaborates, “In propaganda, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction.”

The tragic killing of 16-year-old Junaid—after a quarrel over a seat in a train—was sadly used an opportunity by the propagandists in media. The proximity of Ballabhgarh to Delhi and the fact that the murder took place during the holy month of Ramzan was used by these sections to push their narrative further. That the quarrel took a communal turn and religious barbs were traded is not denied, but as reprehensible as the incident was, such tragedies are neither new nor directed at Muslims alone. In fact, such occurrences which undermine the rule of law can end up either way depending on the turf and armoury at hand.

In one such incident in Muzaffarnagar, just a few days back, another young man Akash lost his life. His father and four others were admitted to hospital after receiving bullet injuries. None in the media saw it as a Muslim assault on Hindus. No calls to protest wearing black bands were announced either from the Jantar Mantar. The incident was rightly treated as a criminal offence involving a group of people whose religious identity happened to be incidental.

But since the propagandists in media understand the importance of confining themselves to a few points, they have kept looking for words such as ‘beef’, ‘Muslims’ and ‘lynching’. Poor Rahul Yadav from Etmadpur in Uttar Pradesh and Kaushik Purkayasth from Diamond Harbour in West Bengal were also victims of mob fury. Both of them were lynched for suspected cattle theft, but the death of neither passed the media’s outrage test.

The desperation of the propagandists was also noted earlier when a journalist tried to present murder and dacoity in Jewar, Bulandshahr as a beef-related crime because the victims happened to be Muslims. Anand Ranganathan, a noted columnist, has compiled a long list of ‘lynchings’ in the recent past which include crimes initially given communal colour by media but later confirmed as intra-Muslim affairs. In the list are also mentioned cases where the identity of victims was suppressed because they happened to be Hindus killed by Muslim mobs.

If there was one clear case of a person being lynched for his suspected religious identity in the last few days, it was the brutal killing of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Ayub Pandith in Kashmir, during Ramzan. Ayub was mistaken for a Kashmiri Pandit by a mob which stripped him naked and lynched him to death. No hearts bled for Ayub, and none among the ‘eminent’ journalists lamented the radicalisation which has consumed Kashmiri Muslims in the valley.

A deceitful narrative being built by some propagandists attempts to blame the ascendancy of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in the Centre and States for the ‘growing intolerance among majority Hindus’ and for the ‘Muslim minority facing increased threat because of a changed political climate’. The fraud is given away by the fact that it is BJP and Rashtriya Swayamseva Sangh (RSS) cadres being murdered all through the country, and that this macabre list includes many murders carried out by Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers. If there was politics to be blamed for killings, these are the cases to look upto.

Outside the echo chambers of ‘liberal seculars’, it is evident that the Indian majority remains as tolerant or intolerant as ever. It is, however, the agenda of propagandists in media which has got more and more shrill and brazen. As is the case with liars elsewhere, propagandists masquerading as intellectuals lack ingenuity and simply attribute their follies to their opponents. Seen in the light of this precept, it makes sense where the terms ‘intolerance’ and ‘fascism’ come from. This section of media and intelligentsia has thus far brooked no dissent. It has either stifled the voices which disagreed with them or viciously muted the ones it could not ignore. That it has ruthlessly suppressed cold-blooded political murders and distorted suicides and criminal incidents to set up a narrative speaks volumes about its integrity.

What we are witnessing today is not an era where of bigoted majority but perhaps the darkest period of journalism in India. The deceit by a section of media is being complemented by bigotry and intolerance of its captive constituency which targets the Indian Army, slaughters cows on streets and cheers Islamist calls for dissection of India. Though the tendencies were latent, never before did we see them becoming acceptable and it is the propagandists themselves who work to reinforce in this constituency their anti Hindu, anti Indic prejudices.

The real intolerance, as we can see, is the refusal to accept the 2014 mandate. It is the intolerance to Indic idea of India. The daily charades such as #NotInMyNameare to discredit a dispensation which ascended to constitutional power in the face of their imperiousness.

To come back from where we started, the Nazi propaganda manual continues, “Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.” As words carry significant connotations, one should be wary and circumspect in using terms such as fascism or Nazism, but weren't these journalists positing the same idea with their ‘Post-Truth’?

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கால பைரவன்;388859 said:

As much as I believe that BJP has not been any different when it comes to pampering minorities (to this day it continues all the invidious schemes initiated by UPA favoring Xtians and Mus), it is equally true that the appeasement policy of BJP towards minorities has not really changed the partisan attitude of media, both domestic and foreign, towards it. Goes to show that even if BJP bends backwards to please the minorities, the hit job against it will continue.


https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/dear-media-what-was-that-about-post-truth-again

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In a similar vein, where are the journalists and our dear forum posters who were berating Donald Trump right from his first day of his campaign who were breast beating about Trump and his immigration policy?

They did not leave a single bit of news of adverse news and bombarded us with c n p of all major and sundry newspapers published in USA.

They refuse to come out of their cocoon to make even a single mention of Supreme Court upholding the Trump ban.

The media is yet to arrive at the truth known to everybody except them, that the general public is no more "captive constituency" of these scheming journalists, biased editors and crony media moghuls.

zebra16 said:

In a similar vein, where are the journalists and our dear forum posters who were berating Donald Trump right from his first day of his campaign who were breast beating about Trump and his immigration policy?

They did not leave a single bit of news of adverse news and bombarded us with c n p of all major and sundry newspapers published in USA.

They refuse to come out of their cocoon to make even a single mention of Supreme Court upholding the Trump ban.


The media is yet to arrive at the truth known to everybody except them, that the general public is no more "captive constituency" of these scheming journalists, biased editors and crony media moghuls.

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The spitting cobra directs its venom on victims eyes. So instead of just spewing venom randomly please say what you mean, or don't say it at all.

What Trump is doing or not doing may not be of interest to general members in this forum.
Trump is a joke and tragedy for the World and the USA.

"captive constituency" of these scheming journalists, biased editors and crony media moghuls.

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It has become fashionable to criticize reports and media when they write opinions, not to your liking. You can find the media you like. Generally, I applaud the journalist who does their reporting from places I could never visit. There are media outlets who are very responsible and do their jobs with sincerity. There are editorial boards that go back and check and verify the authenticity of their pieces.

Yes, there is biased news, and of course, the internet is full of fake news.
But to tar, all media with a broad brush is wrong and irresponsible. It does a disservice to journalism around the globe.

The first war that President Trump has declared is a war against the news media.

In his first few days in the White House, the President and his advisers took direct aim at the reporters who are covering them. Standing in the headquarters of the CIA, President Trump decided to devote much of his remarks to assailing journalists.
"I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, right?" And press secretary Sean Spicer used his first White House briefing as an opportunity to attack the media falsely for understating the size of the crowds at Trump's inaugural ceremony.

"Some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting,​

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In the end, the press continues to serve a vital function in our polity as a guardian of democracy. We depend on the news media to provide the most accurate accounts of what is going on in Washington, in the statehouses and in the streets. Americans rely on reporters helping to prevent the abuse of power and to filter fact from fiction in an era when the barriers against the dissemination of information have been almost completely torn down.
This moment of challenge can thus turn into an opportunity -- just as journalists remade their profession in the Progressive Era when confronted by rampant political corruption, or in the 1960s and 1970s after Vietnam and Watergate exposed the urgency of tougher investigative reporting.
Never has the need for good journalism been more evident. Never has there been more need for media companies and nonprofit organizations to invest money in sound and careful reporting. With a President saying that everything the press does is irrelevant and wrong, it's time for it to step up and prove to the public just how wrong he is.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/opinions/trumps-war-on-media-zelizer-opinion/index.html

Not knowing your bias about railing against "C&P" (Or people using it) and other methods of information gathering, my post may not be a direct response. Get over other's method of gathering information. If you do not like the post leave it alone.
If you think you alone can generate original information post it, let us be the judge of that.

I have yet to see an original thesis that you of any of your buddies have posted.So please quit bitching and get on with life.

In Donald Trump’s America, the mere act of reporting news unflattering to the president is held up as evidence of bias. Journalists are slandered as “enemies of the people.”

Facts that contradict Trump’s version of reality are dismissed as “fake news.” Reporters and their news organizations are “pathetic,” “very dishonest,” “failing,” and even, in one memorable turn of phrase, "a pile of garbage.”

On his very first day in office, he called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth.”
Since then he has regularly condemned legitimate reporting as “fake news.” His administration has blocked mainstream news organizations, including The Times, from briefings and his secretary of State chose to travel to Asia without taking the press corps, breaking a longtime tradition.

Given the very real dangers posed by this administration, we should be indefatigable in covering Trump, but shouldn’t let his bullying attitude persuade us to be anything other than objective, fair, open-minded and dogged.
The fundamentals of journalism are more important than ever. With the president of the United States launching a direct assault on the integrity of the mainstream media, news organizations, including The Times, must be courageous in our reporting and resolute in our pursuit of the truth.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-trumps-war-on-journalism/

Regarding Post 2,3:

Too much venom is not good for health for those giving out the venom.

Trump's Muslim ban was never supported by any courts. It was rejected by all appeals court but the US Supreme court punted the issue. The arguments will be heard few months from now. For now they granted a non-religious test only.

Saudi Arabia who sent 20 or so 9/11 terrorist is not in the list. Trump has business dealings in those countries.