Mandi Mein Media
The author Vineet Kumar has come up with a book named ‘Mandi Mein Media’. The book highlights the impact of commercialization and corruption in the media.
Kumar says “I don't know why people call it the fourth pillar of the state. To me it is nothing more than a metaphor. I have tried to show how the media is just another commercial activity.”The book has tried to trace the ills through data and not merely by theories.”He justifies the title by saying that 'mandy' gives a negative sense of the market.
Kumar alleges that the huge investments required to run news channels have turned them into puppets of politicians and corporate houses. No to more channels means no to sum of license fees and the newspaper is not free from corruption either.
Agree with Vineet Kumar, the newspaper is not free from corruption. I think that corruption is so deep-rooted everywhere, that it would be naive to think that the media is free from it.
ReplyDeleteMedia once a tool to end corruption from society is now itself corrupted. Shocked to know that the news we read are sometimes paid for, politicians and corporates pay the media company for writing possitive stuffs for them and adding negative things for the opposition parties or rivals.
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