Journalists or Political Brokers

For the last so many days, there has been a news doing rounds about some journalists being involved in portfolio distribution of ministries during UPA 2 or atleast were a privy to certain information which they should not be. There were tapes on the websites doing rounds involving lobbyists, journalists and coroporate barons which people can listen and easily comprehend what's going on.

However, what is more disturbing and shameful is that media (none of the news channels ) has not at all covered this story. One would expect Arnab Goswami of Times Now or Rajdeep Sirdesai from CNN IBN to come back in full force, just like they do for the smallest of any political or social activity, But Alas! none came forward and showed guts to take on fellow biraderein. The media houses showed even more guts and not at all shameful when they didn't move the journalists in question off air for even few days, whom now everyone would think of doing yellow journalism.

Is this bcoz of the old saying that 'dog-does-not-eat-dog' and that exposing or probing the journalists in question would actually open up a pandora box wherein every other journalists is going to be exposed? Had it been some western country where true 'freedom of speech' exists, the journalists in question would be put out of channel in 2 mins and on road facing public outrage. But in India, their fellow journalists and news channels are just quite and mum, burying the whole issue what looks like a tip of the icerberg.

It hurts to see that most of the channels would make big stories out of nothing but something as grave as hijacking the whole country for benefit of few is not making sense to these news channels. Indian Media has indeed proven the proverb in true sense that 'those who live in glass houses wouldn't throw stones at others'.