The fact remains that media suddenly became Sri Sri's enemy overnight.
It is reported that they are biased and partial in their reporting the celebration and concentrate only on alleged Yamuna flood plain degradation.
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‘Media became our enemy overnight’: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s PR disaster
Art of Living founder, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar aka Ravi Shankar Ratnam is not accustomed to hostility from the media.
In fact, his highly efficient team of PR professionals dealing with bad press for the first time in 30 years thanks to the controversy surrounding the World Culture Festival organised by AoL on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi.
Such is the magnitude of the controversy this time that even a leading English newspaper, whose owners are known devotees of Ravi Shankar, carried front page stories on the culture festival that were less than congratulatory.
“Overnight, the media has turned into our enemies. We enjoyed such good relations (before this). It’s all part of a sinister conspiracy,” says a senior AoL office-bearer who left his family in Bengal two decades ago to devote his life to Sri Sri’s cause. Refusing to be drawn into making a statement on record, he said, “I am only talking to you as a friend.”
Read more at:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...pr-disaster/story-yQtAAFQ5iA4urdWpCFK3hP.html
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Media bias against Sri Sri's World Culture Festival is shocking
Is the seemingly one-sided coverage just prejudice against spirituality, against a Hindu guru?
As an American visiting India to participate in Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s WCF, I have been shocked at the way the media has covered the controversy over the event. I find it deplorable that in the reporting of the alleged Yamuna flood plain degradation and NGT response – the media continues to consistently take a position of condemning the Art of Living Foundation.
The condemnation is simply based on limited information and reports presented to NGT. One would have hoped that the media would be a little more impartial in its reporting and give Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and AOLF the benefit of the doubt, or at the very least, acknowledge his decades worth of work in protecting the environment.
Read more at:
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/sri-s...al-aolf-art-of-living-media/story/1/9504.html
