As a follower of Indian
political scene, a sleazing CD of senior Congress leader & spokesperson Abhishek
Manu Singhvi was a big piece of news for me. This was 18th April and
I was told that this story is doing rounds from 4-5 days. I was bit surprised
as there was not a single mention of this story on any of our sensation loving
media channels.
I decided to call couple of my
close buddies with whom I usually discuss and debate the political issues.
Amazingly the reply regarding knowledge of any such thing was negative.
Definitely the mainstream media was playing some games here, the best way to
overcome this was to turn to social media (Goggle search links, Facebook,
Twitter) and as expected the whole repository of information was there, #AMS was
trending on Twitter, a sure sign that there were millions who were discussing
this event.
Just
for the benefit of people who are not that close to this story the facts found
were as follows-
- There was a CD of AMS which allegedly was circulated to lot of media channels by his driver.
- The CD was recorded in Supreme court chambers where AMS and one of her female colleague were involved in compromising positions ( read sex)
- Not only this, chat between the two suggested that AMS was assuring the lady lawyer that he will help her in becoming the judge using his power.
- Now this was a great media masala story , the media which ran Karnataka porngate story for days and Gujarat MLAs watching sex site for number of days suddenly decided to take the moral high ground and decided against running (even mentioning) this story as this was individual’s personal matter. Isn’t it height of double standards?
- The excuse media took was the injunction obtained by AMS from high court that this video cannot be telecasted. Agreed there was an injunction but that was for telecasting the videos not against reporting this matter.
- However in this twitter-yug no information can be suppressed. The entire efforts of AMS went in vain as all videos were uploaded on various social networking sites by 20th of April. There was even a cat mouse game where as soon as such video was uploaded it was deleted from youtube, but currently everything is easily available across net. Just use the right search words in youtube and everything is there for public consumption
- Meanwhile AMS has won the case against his driver, his driver has admitted that CD was fabricated and permanent injunction has been provided by the court.
Imagine in our country where
cases linger for years and years, AMS managed to win and close this case in a week.
If you a senior SC lawyer and such a strong person of ruling party of country
anything can happen. Driver can admit crimes, courts can provide relief, media
can blackout stories, opposition can stay quiet but what about the common aam
junta. You can buy everything with your power but how will you buy millions of
common man voices.
Sir AMS , when even the most brutal
dictators of world were not able to stop Arab uprising ( it was the social
media which united the people) , how can you imagine that that in free democratic country like India
you will be able to stop public from watching your adventures by obtaining some
court order.
And now about the role of our
great media, which is often termed as arm of state ( in common words it’s a paid
media which favours the Congress party). Suddenly the entire media has united against
showing this story as this can hamper and dampen the image of their employers.
And when I asked 1 of the
great editor about their saintly stand I was given the privacy and voyeurism lecture.
I would
like to ask that where were all these standards when Swami Nityanand clips were
telecasted without any proof, when the unclear pictures of Gujarat MLAs were
shown for days until it was proved that it was all lies, when the Karnataka
porn gate was the only news for days. If it’s not related to ruling Congress
party everything is fine but everything related to them (whether this incident
or illness of Sonia Gandhi) is respected as reporting it is a invasion of
privacy.
Anyways the great deeds of media are already
been exposed by famous net-blogger Ravinar who beautifully captures and
highlights all the lies of our great media crooks.His blog is highly recommended
for anyone who is fed up of lies and misdeeds of our paid media.
If you have reached here,
thanks a lot for your patience. Any feedback/comments are most welcome.
