Indian Media Bash Blog

Some people never change. And most don’t want to change. The remaining remain in the permanent stage of delusion.

Rajdeep Sardesai remains in the last category. This isn’t a personal post against him but only a critique of what he forcefully states on his blog. He is so much caught in the frenzy of his assertions that he tends to forget that there is life much more beyond the “professed ideologies” and surveys.

An interesting offshoot of American media was the number of surveys it carried out. So you had surveys for the people having sex and the new libertian attitudes of the “new American woman” who asserted herself sexually in the bed. Or the story about the BIG “O”. The tabloidish surveys excited pre teens and the immature bunch of idiots and were easily dismissed as a nuisance.

It interesting to see the same “trends” creeping in the Indian media where the established media houses cry hoarse about their credibility and present surveys which are used to fill up the columns in their newspapers. Or perhaps Mr Rajdeep Sardesai finds something to write about on his blog which he promotes it on his news channel.

“Lotus in Crisis”. BJP has been written off many a times and each time the secular card carrying swooning and frenzied idiots are forced to eat crow each time. Surprisingly, they don’t do a follow up of their claims. Most of Rajdeep’s write ups are about the dying and deaying BJP and the rise of the “new rejuvenated” Congress. The “magic” isn’t happening and I can confidently claim that the viewrship of CNN-IBN’s news channel is mostly intellectually challanged idiots who revel in watching the “stings”.This claim springs from the nature and the type of comments after the respective blog entries.

I wouldn’t claim any “intellectual superiorty” over the editorial policies; however they seem to be ‘ably guided’ by one Mr Yogedra Yadav who is a dyed in a wool leftist. Nothing wrong with the political opinion though. However, it becomes difficult to digest Marxism in the face of overwhelming odds that it is a dead horse being flogged beyond what it could possibly take. The journalism profession, if in decay, needs to address neutrality without proclaiming the results without backing up with adequate proof.

It seems that Mr Sardesai loves surveys. As I was going through the blog entries on a random basis, here is one sample from a write up earlier on in this year.

A recent survey in the United States suggested that the credibility of journalists was at an all-time low. Its just possible that a survey in this country would throw up similar results.

Another mention of the “poll” (or survey in another words):

Is it any surprise then that the recent CNN-IBN-Hindu state of the nation poll done by the redoubtable Prof Yogendra Yadav and his team suggests that if general elections are held today, the BJP would be down to just 82 seats while the ruling UPA would win over 300 seats? The opinion poll confirms the precipitate decline of a party which a little over two years ago was seen as the dominant force in Indian politics.

How true are these surveys? Is the population size significant enough that they can be attributed randomly to the entire population? The voting patterns differ from state to state and constituency to constituency. Majorly, people tend to vote in for the local issues than the national policies. The nuclear deal would have no meaning to the dude in Bihar or anywhere else. Most of the theatrics is for public consumption or the ‘talk and shout’ crowd in the media houses.

Further, there is no independent agency to vet the results. In a nation of a billion, a random survey of thousands or lakhs of people would have no statistical significance. I am sure that the technicalities can be challanged; I remain sceptical of their claims. It is easy enough to pat one’s backs, present oneself as “intelligent” on the Television with a teleprompter. But blogs are a different league altogether. The written word can be challanged as proof of admittance of one’s handicap and stupidity of their claims.

I could wax on the hate tribe of the secularists against Gujarat; but it seems that it is blackened out from the national mainstream media. Conspiracy theorists love to grind mills about Narendra Modi and his brand of politics having limited appeal. However, it seems that there is a certain class of “hindustanis” (much like the burra sahibs of yore and their cahoots) love to revel by disgracing the rise of political Hindutva and assertion of public space for the expression of their faith.

Sadly, the same crowd has gained on the centre stage in the mainstream media.

Some have discovered blogs.