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SOCIETY

meaning to the presence.
There are certainly small news
organizations (which fall out of the
mainstream), here and there, that are
fighting to stay out of the cataclysm
capitalist architecture and to them the
consistent threat of being wiped off
the slate are immense, but these are
nevertheless the actual vanguards of
reporting in its essence, and by cutting
down on dependencies such
organizations assure their survival. As
to how long such organizations can
evade the “omnipresent” onslaught of
the media barons is a story that may
perhaps never be told. And then the
question remains as to what all of the
population comprises their
audience/readership? Are there any
takers at all? Can these small
reporting units match the glamour and
glitz of the corporations which
consistently bombard the thought
shelters of the unassuming with
“gilded penances”. The answer is
quite obvious. “The very people, who
should know better, having criticized
the hold of the media on the national
mind, find themselves transfixed by
the press, glued to the television set,
as the candidates preen and smile
and bring forth a shower of clich?s
with a solemnity appropriate for epic
poetry.” Yet it is for the common
people to deal with this.
Misrepresented and misinterpreted or
should we say misreported stories
create a vacuum which can be filled
by truth and truth only.
Our own land, Kashmir, with its
standard rule the roost, history disrupted by pertinent
George Orwell wrote the lines, “Who
controls the past controls the future. history books is ideological–biased not those who pay to make the machinery disrepute, is marred by misreporting
Who controls the present controls the in favor of the people, but towards the run with ease; facts that matter to the (positively at the national level) almost
commercial and political interests of common man, the citizenry are everyday, adding on the pile of
past.” He understood that if you can
control what people know about the men and corporations at the top.” brushed under the carpets of media distortions that have come to
moguls. It is plain distortion and a represent its people and their
history, if you can decide what gets in
The world media industry is creating people whose history is distorted on aspirations. Peaceful demonstrations
and what is left out, you can order
history, while categorizing, have been reported as pestilent in
their thinking. You can order their an average daily basis are bound to
compartmentalizing and coiling
values. You can in effect organize face a distorted, uncertain and nature ever since reporting turned a
events by way of reportage on a daily
their brains by controlling their convolved future. new leaf in Kashmir, back in the 90s. A
basis and there is no matching resistance movement has been
knowledge, says Howard Zinn,
mechanization process running The world of reportage, generally assuredly duped to be a mob outrage,
American born historian, author,
parallel to this novel corporation these days, is like a game of tic tack
activist, playwright, intellectual and as with every passing hour the media
rooted in the “new world order”. What toe and really that simple. It is about machinery is churning news to suit
Professor of Political Science. And comes out of the media cannons is by crossing out the boxes (truths) in
this is about the best interpretation India Inc. in Kashmir, there is no room
default registered in the minds of the immediate sweeps and wining the
that elaborates vividly on the role of for the newsroom.
audience, and to a large extent, as the game. What is left unreported, I would
media, I have ever come across. Zinn
irony of the matter is, as being true. say, mainly comprises of what has
adds that “most of what we get from
Truths are tailored to suit those who been told. The absence lends
mainstream media and from