Some years back Rajdeep Sardesai used to
have a show or a segment on his TV debates called Crossfire. He probably
borrowed the idea from CNN-IBN’s American sister CNN. Back in 2004, during the
US election campaign, American comic and satirist Jon Stewart was on CNN’s Crossfire.
He delivered a severe battering to the two hosts for their sham debates and deceptions
(One of them, Carlson Tucker, was even ridiculed for his silly bow-tie, which LOC
Ambassador Karan Thapar now copies). Stewart described where these guys went to
after presidential and other debates. Here’s a hilarious exchange:
STEWART: But let me ask you guys, again,
a question, because we talked a little bit about, you're actually doing honest
debate and all that. But, after the debates, where do you guys head to right
afterwards?
CARLSON: The men's room.
STEWART: Right after that?
BEGALA: Home.
STEWART: Spin alley.
BEGALA: Home.
STEWART: No, spin alley.
BEGALA: What are you talking about? You
mean at these debates?
STEWART: Yes. You go to spin alley, the
place called spin alley. Now, don't you think that, for people watching at
home, that's kind of a drag, that you're literally walking to a place called
deception lane?
After the thrashing that the hosts got,
CNN pulled the show. It was brought in again some months later in 2005 in a totally different
format. Fortunately, for our media crooks they carry on their sham despite many
a slap.
That’s right! After a political rally or
exchange our Editorialists gather in the “spin
alley” and decide how to spin the statements by politicians or other public
figures. Even after debates or interviews (Like RahulG with Arnab) along with
politicians their media slaves also run to “spin alley” to spin both positive
and negative bloopers. People are now smart enough to recognise these deceptive
liars for what they are. I call them ‘India’s biggest mafia’. Every crime – rape, murder, financial frauds,
cheque-book journalism – you will find it in our media. But on February 24,
2014 our mafia was hurt; very hurt. Seems Gen
VKSingh called them “Presstitutes”
and Home Minister Sushil Shinde threatened to “crush the electronic media”. The Union of Snakes, aka Editors’ Guild, also condemned
VKS for using the term Presstitutes.
First, let’s deal with Shinde’s stupid
statement. He said he will crush electronic media if there is any propaganda
against the Congress. We are used to this man making stupid statements. When
cornered he made it worse by saying he didn’t mean TV or journalists but social
media. So he wants to crush social media for propaganda against Congress. That
should have pacified our media crooks to some extent. Of course, his party also
wanted to ban opinion polls. I wrote a long time ago ‘why the MSM would like see social media dead’ and folks on
the SM had a good laugh as the real journalists at the Unreal Times showed us:
That done, let’s now deal with the Presstitutes.
Johny-returned-lately, Akash Banerjee
(ex-Timesnow, ex-HeadlinesToday, ex-Hibernation) started kicking and screaming
at VKS on the phone over the Presstitutes remark demanding an apology on the
evening of February 24. It wasn’t as if he felt insulted, it sounded as if he
was raped or molested. After a few minutes of rage his own colleagues must have
told him to calm down.
One can understand Arnab inspires everyone in his
channel to behave like him. Take a look at the daily morning show of Timesnow.
Each morning there are 2, 3 or 4 ladies who line up to deliver the morning
entertainment. I call them “Arnie’s
Angels”. Each one of them is trained
like a parrot and maybe helped with a teleprompter to prefix the term “poster boy” each time Narendra Modi is
mentioned. It’s not just these angels but other ladies on Timesnow, like Navika
Kumar, Arnab, Rhythm and Rhyme, also use this term to describe Modi. So I
wonder why these folks get so agitated over the term Presstitutes. At other
times we have heard terms like mass-murderer, hero of hatred and so on being
used recklessly by all the editorialists.
They also call communal riots “genocide”
and “pogrom” knowing well they are lying. But these scumbags and scumbaginis expect
they should be treated honourably, respected for all their nonsense and be
spared the agony of insults that they heap on others.
Arnab doesn’t have a good memory unless
it is fed by pieces of paper from his assistants. He forgot how he witch-hunted
Nitin Gadkari over 19 episodes based on flimsy accusations by an AAP member. He
forgot how he and the entire media witch-hunted N. Sreenivasan of BCCI over the
IPL betting issue for three weeks and blacked out all other issues. Sure, you
cover these allegations and scams but don’t claim to be ignorant of deliberate
and well-planned witch-hunts. The TOI group carried some 107 odd negative articles on the CWG. Are we to believe these guys were really interested in the truth or
justice? Was the TOI reporting without motives? Surely not! The excessive
coverage was because TOI didn’t get the contracts that went to the Unholy Trinity of HT-NDTV-CNN-IBN
through practices that weren’t entirely fair. What do you call this? Journalism or Presstitution? I bet if
Times group had got the media contracts you may never have seen the 107
negative headlines. That’s the work of Presstitutes. We know how the media has
reacted against Shinde and VKS; let’s sample what the people have to say on SM:
During the discussions on the adventures
of Tarun Tejpal on TimesNow, Arnab
himself admitted the media had wronged by not taking up and following up on the
Radiagate episode. How conveniently
the Presstitutes blacked out and buried the story is a major crime. Most of
these Presstitutes were also aware of Tejpal’s misdeeds. It is undeniable that
these Hammamis do not report on corruption in their own ranks and therefore
earn the contempt of people and names that describe them pretty well. Before
the 2013 state elections in November-December quite a few channels were openly
campaigning for the AAP party. Even if the Presstitutes deny it they can’t deny
the overwhelming evidence that points to this malicious conduct of fake debates
and discussions. The ultimate proof of the political pimping came in the form
of Ashutosh who was sacked from IBN7
and had to join his masters in AAP. Pics of him being bedmates with the AAP
party also came into public domain. There are other scumbags like Punyaprasoon
Bajpai and Anjana Om Kashyap of AajTak not being very different. The political
pimping wasn’t different with Rajdeep, Barkha or Sagarika who have been long-time
political doormats. One of the most read articles on this site still happens to
be “The AAPSucker Proxies”. Here’s
another image that is popular with people and I don’t think anyone is under any
illusion (and it comes from an MSM cartoonist, not SM):
Recently, Deepak Chaurasia of India News (formerly with every Hindi channel
on earth) was voted India’s Worst Journalist – 2014. He was indeed a surprise
winner and the reason being he is alleged to have doctored a video of
child-abuse using children and persons who were unaware of the scam. There also
appears to be an FIR against him. Heard any news channel reporting on such
pathetic activities in the media mafia? There are other journos who wantonly
abuse politicians and people in general. And that is the reason the MSM is
facing flak from every quarter. This is apart from financial frauds, tax frauds
and sexual transgressions at work places. There is a history of how the MSM has
obliged and colluded to cover up many crimes of the govt. Why be offended with
the title of Presstitutes? I wrote in “Rajdeep On Deception Lane” that very long ago someone from the media gave the
most stinging description of journalists and their character. Here is John
Swinton of NYT from 1880:
"There is
no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You
know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest
opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am
connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and
any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on
the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear
in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to
pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for
his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the
scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our
talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes”.
Between VKS and Swinton there isn’t much
difference in the description of the crooks. Till a while ago the PCI chairman,
Markandeya Katju, himself was behaving like a political tool. He was not only
running a political campaign but also ridiculing Indians at large. His nonsense
had to be ended by a stinging post from Arun Jaitley in which AJ delivered a severe slap: “Retired judges must remember that the rental
for occupying a Lutyen's bunglow post retirement has to be political neutrality
not political participation”. There are many media Presstitutes occupying
Lutyen’s bungalows and govt flats and as long as they do so they will remain
political doormats. The media mafia really has no business to feel hurt. They
should cleanse their Hammam instead.
