New CEO of Twitter under Attack!

[Sukla Sen]

"I don't know why Nationalist Indians get so excited about Parag Agrawal as the new CEO of Twitter or the other Leftist Liberal Indians leading Google, IBM, YouTube, etc. They're all the same, you can't share your point of view if it is not their narrative. You will be censored," she [an American conservative activist who, among other things, swears to save India from "secularism] said in another tweet.

(Excerpted from: <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/conservatives-say-new-twitter-ceo-part-of-radical-left-dig-up-old-tweets/articleshow/88015017.cms>.)

This, however, shows up the problem with the extreme variety of the counter-narrative as regards the "corporate media".

The "top comment" below is an exemplar: 

Agarwal is a bania who works to make money. He cannot be bound by ideology. All controversial tweets are aimed at increasing "CONVERSATION ON TWITTER" which brings more revenue to his company.

In 2002, was in Gujarat and experienced first-hand the valiant fights that the local editions of the IE and ToI - in that order, were fighting and the venom being spewed by the vernacular Sandesh and Gujarat Samachar - in that order.

And, to be sure, it was no exception either.

It's our common experience that the vernacular press is, by and large, far more raucous than the national English press.

On the top of it, the arrival of the electronic media followed by the rise of the social have made the picture far more tangled.

Yet, it is so difficult to come out of the clutches of the rote-learnt nonsenses.