Can You Trust India's No.1 Newspaper? ...Contd

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By the way do you want to know why? It's very simple. Let's assume that you have a problem with the government or any particular organization where crores of your money or profit is involved. The government might not be interest to support you, but their support is imminent. What can you do? The only thing you might just attempt is to mobilize the public support. How do you do that? Simple, go to a newspaper office speak to someone in their respective marketing, or in our No.1 newspapers case 'Response', department and explain your problem. They might offer, in verbal only as in written they might just get in trouble, different budgets for arranging a writer and obtaining a particular column on a particular day(s). And there you are. The fee, will taken from you with a bill which will specify as been received for releasing a particular advertisement. The amount you may have to shell out might be anywhere between Rupees 100,000 to 2,500,000. Let's re-ascertain Sanjay Dutt's case, he has with him some incomplete films which worth crores of rupees.

Should these films fail to come out the Producers are sure to be on the streets. So what can they do? The best thing is to mobilize public opinion and what better than newspapers and television. For a producer who can afford an actor asking 2 Crore, a 2,500,000 budget is almost a paltry sum and thus they use it. And they did use it! Else what has a media or you have to do with the actor? This point should be simply fair enough to prove that – these Medias are simply what we can best call 'Opportunist'. So will you trust an opportunist newspaper to give you the facts as it is?

Our No.1 newspaper takes pride to call itself as a 'Secularist'. What a beautiful word 'Secularist'! Say that you are one and you almost get a license to fire any other religious organization left and right – except Islam. That's very right. By the way don't think that, or get mistaken, that these media organization have any sympathy towards the Muslims, many shout at them in public in a way which many of the right wing organization in the country wouldn't be doing. The reason why they don't write against the Muslims is due to the fanatics within them who are ever ready to give threat calls and give a big blow to any reporter writing anything against them or their religion.

Let me divert for a moment. I was been told about a story by a right-wing writer friend of mine, I don't really know how true it is but it goes this way: Once a premier French writer was called on by RSS chief K S Sudarshan, and was asked as to how could the media be made to write their thoughts and ideologies. For this the French journalist said 'Use the IRA (Irish Republican Army) strategy' for those who don't understand what IRA strategy is: Irish used to first threaten any journalist writing against them and later on hit him hard when the warning failed to work. Understanding the brutality Sudarshan was said to have denied this idea outright. Perhaps this is the reason why any reporter might feel easier to criticize the Hindutva organization than any other. I can swear to assure you that you can write anything against Hindutva and its reader and yet move freely even to RSS, VHP or Bajarang Dal Head Quarters.

However, insane as it is, not just they write against those organizations but even deny writing any good thing about them, even if testimony has been submitted. If you think that I am wrong, try that yourself. Go to your nearest RSS office and ask about their various projects - they do more charity and voluntary services than any other organization – let alone foreign missionaries. You will come to know how less true I was. Given this, isn't that enough to prove that they are anti-Hindutva. And if they are, which they are, anti-Hindutva how can they claim to be 'Secular'? They are Pseudo-Secular, and if they are so: Why should anyone buy such a paper? Why are you paying them Rupees 3?

Think about it. If they can't speak the truth, if they have no values and are pseudo-secular what is the point in reading them? Do you pay any one to tell a lie? Well, if not, why are you paying three rupees to buy No.1 paper? Point to think. Let know what you think?