Anna’s movement against corruption started in April and since then he always hit the headlines of most of the news sources. In recent days there has been sharp increase in the number of cases targeting members of Team Anna. Issues are being fabricated from even a small word of the members and are intentionally criticized by media.
In a recent post on a leading national news paper/portal of the country, Kiran Bedi has been compared to KaniMozhi. The author wonders why Kanimozhi is in jail while Kiran Bedi is outside. (See Here)
Another news portal claims that there is serious dispute between Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal. (See Here)
Just now a statement of Anna came “Team wouldn’t have stuck together if there were differences”. Arvind Kejriwal posted on Facebook that “Despite all efforts from vested interests to create a rift amongst us, we are all together like a rock”.But, you wont find these in any of the major news sources. Instead the matters of differences, suspense and criticism are given priority.
When Income Tax Department sent notice to Arvind Kejriwal for Rs 9 lakhs, it became a hot cake in media.However no media ever reported the fact that it is the same Kejriwal who donated the prize money of 32 lakhs which was given to him with his Magsaysay award.
While media played an important role in creating dispute between Team Anna and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, it never gave due importance to the fact that Uttrakhand became the first state to pass a strong Lokayukta Bill. The statements of Nitish and Arvind Kejriwal were misinterpreted and presented as if they were opponents. Media should have positively highlighted the points and asked each of them to submit their views.
What can be regretfully inferred that either few Journalists are intentionally creating issues to sell their news stuffs or it is a conspiracy to halt the protests led by Team Anna by defaming them. There has been several occasions where Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that Govt is throwing crores of money to lure journalists.
However this was all expected. Baba Ramdev spoke against Government, and he has been defamed. Team Anna spoke against govt, and the members are defamed singularly. When Sri Sri RaviShankar tried to intervene , he has also been threatened of such results.
What do you think? Where the country is leading?Are we living in Independent India, where every citizen has the right to freedom of speech?