Subject: Re: Hindu and Muslim Right at Work In Kerala The two reports that appeared in The Hindu and The Indian Express (Kerala editions) on 25-08-07 ,one relating to the Hindu Aikyavedi's protest against
giving away an award to M.F.Hussain and the other, concerning a Sunni Jamaat Ulmas' protest and campaign against school boys and girls being made to sit on same benches in most of the schools for writing exams indeed do suggest that bigotry of all hues are unabashedly on the display in the State. But what is more intriguing, is the kind of disproportionate, and even salutary coverage these groups do enjoy in the print media. This, especially when their comic lack of sensitivity to the real issues invariably faced by people of all faiths in their day to day lives. Perhaps many of these mechanically minded, professional journalists are either far behind the common people in both imagination and sense of propriety, or obviously they are practicing the kind of "embedded journalism". Whatever be the reason, most of the popular vernacular newspapers selectively allow and disallow coverage to the happenings around. Many of the 'news' originating in a particular district or taluk go hardly beyond the limits of such district or taluk, thanks to innumerable number of area-specific editions to each of these papers. A few of the leading English newspapers though had until recently comparatively better standard of objectivity and sensitivity to issues of the polity at large, of late, they seem to be competing with their vernacular brothern in creating sensationalism. One has to see that the Hindu Aikyavedi is an organization with a good deal of negative popularity among most of the devout Hindus owing to its being a cover organization of the RSS ; similarly, the Jamaat -Ul- Sunni Ulema also is not among the organizations held in esteem by most Muslims. Any organization challenging the ideals of the Constitution(equity,justice,etc. and the gender justice) will most certainly have no place in the hearts of ordinary devotees in any faith. So they are desperately in need of projecting themselves as 'big' and coercing people to supporting them with the aid of these unethically neutral & disproportionate coverage in newspapers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
