Saturday, November 6, 2010

Media’s ‘adarsh’ conduct

The Indian media has often been accused of being vindictive, hasty, immature, over-the-top and much more. Several times in my blog, I have accused it of being less than ideal. But when it came to exposing the Adarsh Housing Society scandal, it has played its cards right.

Both the print and electronic press have been relentless and ruthless in assassinating the reputations of everyone involved in the scam – the chief minister of Maharashtra, bureaucrats, defence chiefs, part-time politicians, full-time scammers. The media deserves some credit for disrobing the naked ambitions of these black sheep, and almost claiming the scalp of the chief minister. But most unfortunately, the list of these shameless 103 includes two former defence chiefs.

Now only if the media gives up chasing the likes of Rakhi Sawant for her bytes, it might get some time to expose many more such ‘anadarshs’.

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