THE ROLE OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN OUR ORGANISATION

[vishwanath shukla]

In favour of our organisation i'm starting a new thread on "the role of
print and electronic media in our organisation".

"becoz their friendship and enmity both are equally costly !!"

through this i would like to put few questions in front of u all------

(1) should we approach media by ourslves ?
(2) how should we deal with the media and their equally smart reporters
if they come
their own ?? What should be our course of action ?
(3) Can we adopt the following attitude, i.e. that we should do some
concrete activities
on social and cultural grounds for few years, without paying
attention to the
EXTERNAL HYPE, and then after we have done some solid homework,
we should
slowly and steadily start appearing in front of the nation
through media.
Or something you all suggest !!!

ours this way of working then may help us
in consolidating our
policies,organisational structureand above all this will give us
AMPLE TIME TO
EVOVLE OUR BASIC PHILOSOPHY and then to consolidate it.
Since we are starting this sort of work for
the first time in the country,
so it is quite natural that we are bound to get some hype and
above all PEOPLE'S
FAITH. Thus this is our prime responsibility that we don't let
down their hopes and
and aspirations.
One thing more we must be catious enough,
to avoid fresh
controversies, because there may some FORCES ( like political
parties and other
mean minded fellows, AS NOW WE ARE DANGER TO THEIR EXISTENCE)
which may try to crush us.
BECAUSE THESE DAYS IDIOTS AND ENEMIES ARE
SMARTER !!.

I request all BM members and office bearers ( i.e. moderatos
and team
coordinators ) to take an active part in the discussion, as this
helps us in finalising
our important policies.

[Sivabalan Pandian]

Dear Folks,

I appreciate the initiative to reflect on the role of media towards the organisation growth and to leverage the power of media to enhance our progressive movement. We need to do things in perspective of our motto "We have only one passion  - The rise of a Great Nation" !
I have always being a believer of the classic maxim "Action speaks louder than words", which should also be our current focus. We need to perform deeds for the upliftment of the society and as time passes by we will shall acquire the fame deserving of the act from the same media.

We can leverage the media to our advantage only to the extend needed to create an awareness amongst our fellowmen not explicitly for the growth of the organisation at this juncture. If we cant totally avoid then we can feed them our motto and probably  the above maxim and nothing beyond that. Else it will tantamount to tomtoming our dreams (which every Indian is good at doing) and will make us sound like an organisation of dreamers.

I might be missing some of the crux of the organisation vision coz I have been a late entrant.
So, if my thought is incoherent with that, kindly feel free to highlight it.

Jai Hind !
Sivabalan S.

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Smile;
Siva

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[BhanuPrakash Singh]

Dear patriots,
I tend to agree with Sivabalan.Lets create the
organisation with sufficient number of active
members,lay down rule for functioning, boundaries of
operation. What I mean is that let BM become an
edifice which can be clearly perceived by any Indian
but which cant be easily demolished or corrupted. pl
remember the moment the self seeking people of this
country sense that our objective may come in their way
they will try to finish off using all resources at
their command. Therefore friends lets make BM stong
enough. Then we must make use of media to further our
aims. bhanu

Bhanuprakash Singh
Chief Mechanical Engineer
West Central Railway,Jabalpur
India 482001office : 0091 7612677076
mob 0091 9425153150

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[Ankur Gattani]

Hi ppl,

 

Media persons.. whoever they are. are as much elements of this society as you and I are! so applying a faceless allegation on them about being irresponsible or anything of that sort is not quite a judicious way of dealing with it.

 

We have to get out of this 'us' and 'them' stance, if you understand what I mean. If India's to awaken truly, the waking up wont' happen in a closed room, isolating the 'others' from it. It has to be a mass effort across professional domains! We also need media persons aboard our mission.. and yes.. they have their allegiance to their bosses.. but not to such an extent that they lose their allegiance to the nation and the society altogether.

 

As of now, lets have our website as our mouthpiece, of all our collectively taken up policies, plans of action etc. Media coverage, is a good means to our end.. and the regulations from our side are only supposed to take care that it doesn't become an end in itself!

 

In both positive and negative ways.. lets realize what media is capable of doing, in this world of today.

 

 

Regards,

 

Ankur

 

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[satya]

I totally agree with Ankur. And in fact this dicussion about who should talk to media ,
this was to be raised sometime in the future if not now.
So now instead of pointing at faults , lets make  strong policies not only about dealing with media but in all respects. Even though our social service with unconditional love.... lets make the organisation more professinoal and bring discilpline.I am deeply worried that this group is grossly under utilized as i see there are lot of young patriots joining the group everyday.

Satya

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[Anil]

Hi all,

I agree with you satya when you say that this group is under utilized. But I wouldn't agree to it when u say that we should be talking abt media sometime in the future.  Ofcourse some ground work, or probably lots, has to be done now. But once a part of it is done, then the media will arrive before you can sit and decide who should take credit for the work done.(Not that someone will want to take credit but when it is with media, you can't expect nething) I'm not saying anything "for or against" media but just that their requirements sometimes demand what they do. For them writing an article which makes good news is very important for themselves and their paper. So they will try and extract as much as they can out of you. And if we can make good use of Media then it would be terrific for us too. I believe that MEDIA IS THE BEST MEANS FOR PUBLICITY IRRESPECTIVE OF WHO YOU ARE.

I don't think you must be tight-lipped with time, but instead maintain transparency. And I see no point in the rule that your name must not appear in the paper. When some good work has been done then the media will arrive but if you really have been transparent with them, why will they try and frame you as the hero(unless you really were in which case you deserve it)?? However the team actually involved in the work must speak to the media even before their coordinator. The coordinator must only put in a few last lines regarding BM as a whole. This will also work as personal incentive. And if someone tries to misuse this, then BM will gain much more through it than the person involved.

Also its important to keep note of the ground reality when the media lifts us high. :)

ANiL

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       Bye
       Anil