Gandhi’s Three Monkeys
Media, being one of the pillars of the democracy has lost its luster and still fooling people. It agrees to show us fake news or propagate an agenda because it wants to keep their businesses running. Some want to propagate a news or an agenda because they want to benefit somehow from it. In the middle its the common man who gets fooled by both. Its the common man who gets sucked up. I always thought that a common man is the strength of a democracy. But as he gets fooled by people and media, is he actually a strength or a nuisance?
Control of information by media houses. What to show? What not to show? Showing only news that generates profit and TRP, reminds us that we are not in a mixed but a capitalist economy. Media doesn’t care about public interest it cares about profit. The political parties don’t care about public interest. They care about propagating their agenda further. A common man cannot control the media nor the political parties. Nor the people who want to spread the fake news for some benefit.
What should a common man do, then? This question reminds me of Gandhi’s three monkeys. Ones who closes its eyes, ears, and mouth, and only depends on self-judgment, self-inquiry. To believe in media in today’s capitalist time is to destroy the idea of democracy. The common man should close his ears not listen to the propagation or agenda. He should close his eyes not to get involved in agenda and fake news. He should close his mouth to not speak of propagation or agenda.
Media depends on funding. The ones who provide funds to media are the ones whose news gets attention while others get ignored. Farmers issues get ignored. Lower caste issues get ignored. Issues of discrimination get ignored. The only news that creates a further divide in society gets attention. It is up to the common man of democracy. The man on whom the whole nation depends, it is up to him to close his mouth, eyes, and ears to such media and don’t react. It is time to not to listen, watch, or say anything hateful, discriminatory, communal.
It is time.
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Control of information by media houses. What to show? What not to show? Showing only news that generates profit and TRP, reminds us that we are not in a mixed but a capitalist economy. Media doesn’t care about public interest it cares about profit. The political parties don’t care about public interest. They care about propagating their agenda further. A common man cannot control the media nor the political parties. Nor the people who want to spread the fake news for some benefit.
What should a common man do, then? This question reminds me of Gandhi’s three monkeys. Ones who closes its eyes, ears, and mouth, and only depends on self-judgment, self-inquiry. To believe in media in today’s capitalist time is to destroy the idea of democracy. The common man should close his ears not listen to the propagation or agenda. He should close his eyes not to get involved in agenda and fake news. He should close his mouth to not speak of propagation or agenda.
Media depends on funding. The ones who provide funds to media are the ones whose news gets attention while others get ignored. Farmers issues get ignored. Lower caste issues get ignored. Issues of discrimination get ignored. The only news that creates a further divide in society gets attention. It is up to the common man of democracy. The man on whom the whole nation depends, it is up to him to close his mouth, eyes, and ears to such media and don’t react. It is time to not to listen, watch, or say anything hateful, discriminatory, communal.
It is time.
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