This is my first blog
and would expect the readers to be lenient with me for errors which may be in
plenty !
In a series of tweets
criticizing only professionally may be a bit too hard, two top Main Stream News
Media persons whom i respect for personal integrity and expect a lot more from them socially on the basis of their past achievements, the ultimate response i
got was a freezing cold one. As i was pondering about the response not as a
jilted admirer but as an open minded individual, a flurry of thoughts came to
my mind.
The outbursts against
Aamir Khan by those in medical profession on expose of unethical malpractices of few of
them in Satyamev Vijayate episode. Majority of those in medical profession were not
at all ready to accept the drawbacks but were throwing back allegations and downplaying
the exposed misdeeds by stating irrefutable good achievements of many of them. The
same thing is evident when even MSNM persons with integrity reacting strongly
against people labeling media as Paid media which certainly is wrong if one
encompasses the whole media as paid. The people who feel that news reports are
not unbiased and express the same in Social media, are sweepingly called by MSNM persons as mindless, mind-blind, trolls …. A few of the Social media users going
berserk, surely can never be justified or defended.
Most Social media users
will accept there are negatives in their side too. Even common citizens will
accept there are few corrupt amongst them also, but most of them are corruption-abused and want to lead a clean life, that’s what is echoed from every part of
India for the last 2 years. But am still to come across a MSNM person accepting
publicly that there are widespread corruption and paid news both raw and refined
in totally commercialized MSNM, why this hypocrisy ?
In every profession or
field there are few characters blotting it. It is the prime duty of the individuals
of integrity in the profession to accept criticism positively and stop those
blotting it rather hypocritically ignoring or covering their misdeeds. Sadly today
any individual will most possibly ignore choicest personal criticism but rarely
does ignore and rather reacts brazenly when criticized professionally. Commercialization
has made professional criticism much more harsher and intolerable than personal criticism.
This sadly boils down
to Professional Privatization, uniting as a Class ignoring or covering up the
misdeeds of a few in it, in a seemingly noble intention of defending and
safeguarding the respect of their Profession. If every Profession becomes a
Class or Group defending even the wrong ones amongst them rather than self initiating
to confront and stop those degrading the Profession, there would be more
divisions in terms of Professional Classes, ready for exploitation by those few
strongly believing and following divide and rule policy. The only ultimate loser
will be every exploited individual citizen of India and the nation India !
