Monday, May 4, 2009

Pakistan's paranoiac Media : a saga of propagating falsehood

we know that during the Gujarat riots , the media in the state of Gujarat had an indirect role in inciting violence ( Brilliantly exposed in a book called Gujarat Making of a tragedy , edited by sidharth Varadarajan ) , where the local news papers used vernacular language often consisting of inflammatory language sure to provoke outrage against a particular community , over a perceived threat either by individuals or groups , which has resulted in public resorting to violence towards fellow citizens and turning the state as a mere spectator & perhaps an indirect instigator of violence ..thus making the word Gujarat becoming synonymous with the word violence in the minds of common man , such was the anxiety that for the first time , it can be said media had an indirect role in civilian conflict in modern india . the idea of media becoming paranoiac is not a new thing , the same psyche was witnessed during the course of world wars and off late during the cold war , bitter propaganda by either side ( to a lesser extent from the western bloc ) , made serious implications on the idea of information versus reality , as it goes by saying that history often repeats it self , the tension between the arch rivals India and pakistan display a pathetic scenario of pakistan's paranoiac media that compounds itself, with unwanted anxiety over India , owing to the lack of understanding on the part of history , excessive use of communal hatred and ofcourse the foundation laid by her rulers which makes their citizens as virtual haters of India, on a perceived dream of a society based on the idea of communalism.

watch how information is misinterpreted:






As an avid watcher of youtube , I was stuck with the magnitude and rehtoric of Pakistan media and its self styled political and defense analysts , whose main job revolves around bashing anti India rehtoric and assert their countrymen that india is a state that practices fascism against their Muslim population (mind you:- not against sikh, not christian , not Bhuddhist , not Parsis ) .

watch how information is misinterpreted:




Imagine how poor it would be when the future genrations are taught history by replacing facts with fiction and reality with perceived threats, and on the other hand provoking ordinary citizens that, a state practicing a faith XYZ is deemed to be direct threat to people practicing faith ABC thus, it not only lays the foundation of communal divide between the people , but also make their fellow citizens for an eventual conflict over the perceived threat through anxiety and false information.





it goes with out concluding that, India can pat herself on its acheivements in media and education .. which atleast distinguishes between fiction and reality by providing information , that is just rational and ideal.

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