MEDIA IN INDIA The media in India is one of the most powerful tools used by the major powers to control and change the Indian public perception

[yogesh saxena]

MEDIA IN INDIA The media in India is one of the most powerful tools
used by the major powers to control and change the Indian public
perception about them selves and about the world. This pattern is also
followed in the international scene with negation of Indic culture and
bias against any revival of civilizational ethos. The creeping news
about any event in the world including jehadi information is presented
in such a way that the process of evolution and force of history is
inevitable and forgone conclusion in favor of the Islamic parties.
Indian populations is like a experimental subject to be fed with new
perception and information away from reality and in favor of the
islamic and major powers. Over several decades the general population
could be made less hostile and more favourable to the designs of the
major power. In the movie Pleasantville a boy grows up in a make
believe world thinking that his neighbours and friends are the actual
reality and totally oblivous of the reality of the world. Indian
population is considered by major powers to be similar with low
knowledge about the reality and threats in the world. How long have
the west been experimenting with Indian population.with news and
indoctrination? It could be even before the independence for more than
60 years. Deception and brainwashing have been used for a long time by
the west and India is one of the largest target of deception. The
current campaign to demonize Hindutva is to defame and remove the new
indigenous political party, which is not under the control of the
major powers and whose ideology is fully rooted in Indic civilization.
The attack on Christians and minorities are overblown with the logic
that the majority community must be checked with aggressive reporting
even to the point of falsehood. Romila thapar eminent historian is
quoted as saying that the notion of non-violent Hindu is misnomer.
Distorted or even totally false reporting on communally sensitive
issues is a well-entrenched feature of Indian journalism. There is no
self-corrective mechanism in place to remedy this endemic culture of
disinformation. No reporter or columnist or editor ever gets fired or
formally reprimanded or even just criticized by his peers for smearing
Hindu nationalists. This way, a partisan economy with the truth has
become a habit hard to relinquish. This logic of news reporting is
considered some form of social engineering. The sense of chaos and
insecurity is conveyed by media reports so that stable environment and
harmony is never achieved in the minds of the larger society. This is
one form of psy operation done inside India for the last three
deacdes. The news creates a notion of change, which reinforces the
decay of the Hindu culture and brings out more of the light Islamic/
Urdu culture. By being very anti-Hindu the media and social sceintists
hopes to reduce aggression of the so called ‘majority’ community over
the minority community and bring balance even at the expense of the
truth. This logic was persued even when the Muslim terrorists in
Kashmir was killing the minorities Hindus and the news is usually kept
low key. Control of media by the foreign governments is done in a
subtle way. Some of the ways are by indoctrinating the editorial teams
and the journalists over time. The Indian leftists have been used for
a long time by the external powers and since they control the media
they are better able to influence the bias in the media. Some question
put by them are 'why dont you talk to your very reasonable nuclear
rival Pakistan' or 'why do you have a Hindu nationalist party in
power' game . Each of these questions is loaded , as they say in the
courtroom , with facts or inferences not yet established by evidence
to be true and designed to shift the conversation from a dubious
premise to a foregone conclusion. The public buys this kind of
argument more readily. Read the book – Cultural Cold War. This book
describes all the dirty tricks used by the CIA and other agencies all
over the world to change countries and to bring chaos in those
countries. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and
Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders It is well known that the CIA
funded right-wing intellectuals after World War II; fewer know that it
also courted individuals from the center and the left in an effort to
turn the intelligentsia away from communism and toward an acceptance
of "the American way." Frances Stonor Saunders sifts through the
history of the covert Congress for Cultural Freedom in The Cultural
Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. The book centers
on the career of Michael Josselson, the principal intellectual figure
in the operation, and his eventual betrayal by people who scapegoat
him. Sanders demonstrates that, in the early days, the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) and the emergent CIA were less dominated by
the far right than they later became (including the Christian right),
and that the idea of helping out progressive moderates--rather than
being Machiavellian--actually appealed to the men at the top. David
Frawley writes: The Indian English media dictates against the
government as if it should be the real political decision-making body
in the country.( Because it is urged and influenced by other foreign
agencies and academic institutions such as U Berkeley/U Columbia) It
deems itself capable of taking the place of legal institutions as
well, printing its allegations as truth even if these have never been
entered into much less proved in any court of law. It has vested
itself with an almost religious authority to determine what is right
and wrong, good and evil, and who in the country should be honored or
punished.( This is called manufacturing consent) Like an almost
theocratic institution, it does not tolerate dissent or allow its
dogmas to be questioned.( It creates groupthink, manufactures
'dissent' forcing everybody to fall in line and creates an old boys
network) In the name of editorial policy, it pontificates, promoting
slogans, denigrations and articles of faith in the guise of critical
policy review. ( This is called brainwashing under freedom ) The media
doesn't aim at reporting the news; it tries to create the news,
imposing its view of the news upon everyone as the final truth. The
media doesn't objectively cover elections, it tries to influence
voters to vote in a specific manner, demonizing those it disagrees
with and excusing those it supports, however bad or incompetent their
behavior. We saw this particularly during the recent Gujarat elections
in which the media went so far as to print the type of election
results it wanted to see as the likely outcome, though voters proved
it to be totally wrong. Where is the Media's Mandate? The question
therefore arises as to what affords the media such a sweeping
authority that can override legitimately elected and appointed bodies?
What sort of mandate has the media been given to justify its actions?
Clearly the media has never been elected to any political post and
does not undergo any scrutiny like that of candidates in an election.
It does not represent any appointed post in the government. It has no
accountability to any outside agency. The media's authority is largely
self-appointed and, not surprisingly, self-serving. Hence media has
become a tool of foreign powers who would like a particular outcome of
an election or policy making inside India or image creation. The
sources behind the media's operation and where they get their money is
also not revealed. We are not informed as to how prominent reporters
and editorial writers derive their income, including how much may come
from outside sources. But clearly they are getting a lot of money from
somewhere that they are not in any hurry to disclose. Though the media
likes to expose the improprieties, financial, sexual and otherwise, of
those its dislikes, which it often exaggerates, if not invents, if you
examine how the media people live, you certainly wouldn't want them
as., role models for your children! Nor are we certain who the media
really represents. Certain groups, not only inside but also outside
India, are using this English media as a vested interest to promote
their own agenda, which is generally anti-Hindu and often appears to
be anti-India as well. Negative news are potrayed more than positive
news. President APJ Abdul Kalam asks: “Why is the media here so
negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own
strengths, our achievements? We have so many amazing success stories
but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Is there an agenda to reduce
the acheivements of India.” The only reason for the negative news is
to reduce the self confidence of Hindus and their place in the world.
This is a campaign on a world scale probably never done anywhere. Is
this really possible and is this really happening. The Media
Propaganda Machine A section o the Indian media often appears more as
a propaganda machine than an objective news agency. In this regard the
large section of English media of India is much like the old state
propaganda machines of communist countries. This is an important clue
for understanding its operation. The English media of India largely
represents a holdover from the Congress era in which it was a state
run propaganda center for the Congress government that was far left in
its orientation. We can perhaps at understand its actions today as a
state run propaganda machine that has continued in power after the
decline of the party that created it. Its prime motive has now become
to reestablish that old state and former ruling party. The media
remains largely a Congress run propaganda machine. As the Congress has
not been able to win elections, it has emphasized its media wing even
more strongly to try to compensate for its failures in the electoral
arena. Yet as the Congress Party itself has often failed, the media
has taken to supporting other leftist groups inside and outside the
country in hope of gaining power. There is a clear hand of western
govts in manipulating the congress party to do its work. This shows
how the Indian government is manipulated as a puppet of the western
govts and has been for a long time for the last 40 years. During
independence before and just after ,the British have used media to
demonize Hindu groups in India. From history K Elst says quote : In
November 1944: “It is the subtle scheme of political propaganda to
describe the Hindu as pro-Fascist. It is a cruel calumny, which has
been spread in America and other countries. The Hindu Mahasabha stood
for Savarkar’s policy of militarization and industrialization. We
recognized that Fascism was a supreme menace to what is good and noble
in our civilization. Due to Veer Savarkar’s call thousands of young
men joined the Army and Navy and Air Force and shed their blood for
resisting Nazi tyranny and for real friendship with China and Russia.
But as the Hindus had the temerity to ask for National Independence
and took the lead in rejecting the Cripps ( commission) offer, they
were maligned and the subtle forces of organized British propaganda
were let loose to blackmail the Hindus.”