Celebrity-(ec)centric Indian Media

God has shown especial favors to politicians. He has bestowed them with an art of exploiting any situation to their advantage, however difficult it may be. The latest example to this effect is Congress’s austerity campaign, which also included party’s rajputra, Rahul Gandhi’s latest journey to Ludhiana in ordinary class of Shatabdi Express. The publicity he got by spending just few hundred rupees as fare is worth more than many crores. Thanks to the media that went berserk.

Although, this is not the first time that street urchins have hurled stones on moving trains, but the hyper activity of our “great media” indicates that it was revelation for it. Perhaps, oblivious of the fact that such incidents are very common for our railways, our fourth estate has given overwhelming coverage to the incident. Now the big question is why media went overboard? Obviously, Rahul was inside the train!!!!!!!!!. Is he so important just because he is Member of Parliament or office bearer of the party????? This means all MPs and party functionaries would have been enjoying such importance? No, it’s only for Rahul “baba”, scion of Gandhi family (not Mahatma Gandhi), reigning ‘royal clan’ of a Democratic country.

The way media gone mad shows how much it has become celebrity-centered. We hardly see any news in print media, which relates to the plight of poor farmers, labourers or the other under privileged sections of our society. In electronic media height of stupidity is a common phenomenon. They can waste hours showing some cat sitting on the roof, unable to come down. These morons don’t understand that cat is much more intelligent than them. It remembers which route it took to reach there; it will come down by it on its own.

Coming back to stone-throwing incident, no doubt it is a highly deplorable and unpardonable act. Though it is punishable, but the law comes into play only when offence is committed against some important or influential person. Why the machinery keeps sleeping when same thing happens to an ordinary person? Every time you can’t bring Rahul Gandhi to wake up people who are entrusted with the job of keeping our system working safe and securely.