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Sunday, March 23, 2014

The elections and he debates

It's election time in India and despite having worked in media or perhaps because of this I find the TV debates biased,hysterical and just playing to the gallery. It's an entertainment show unlike the BBC debates or other international media where facts are discussed and not emotions. Our media does random voting at TV shows. For instance today I watched a show where the audience consisted of youngster s from cities all rather too young to vote. Half do them have no understanding of the economy but are asked to vote in the subject. The panelists are all experienced men but the show is all about putting words into peoples mouths,no substance but plenty of entertainment. Those of us you worked in media know that the show must bring in advertising revenue. Today even journalists are marketing persons,they sell what the advertisers want. Unfortunately marketing has taken over so much of our lives that even the election is all money power and marketing. Everyday we have some thing thrown at us about how one man can change the world. Not since Jesus Christ have we had such blind faith in one man. Unfortunately none of the men. Who claim to change our country have any idea what we want. Our welfare is far from their minds,their own ambition overrides all else. Finally  we are left with a crowd of disjointed candidates all of whole we know cannot deliver a stable government or progress along with social justice. Will we ever see change for the better?. I am willing to settle for a stable political environment where all of us are living in peace. Sadly today we are being made aware of our many differences of culture,religion etc despite having lived peacefully for many years . Because he choices are so limited we try and make sense of what media says but when even that is all hype and hoppla one wonders,what at we basing our choices on....god save our country.


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