On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vinayak Hegde <vinay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On a slightly different tangent > What I find very interesting is the differentiation in discrimination > of different kinds in the media. For example, I see the reservation > policies followed by the current congress government/short-lived VP > Singh (though BJP / third front aren't any better - they are probably > worse) as damaging to society as much as the > Godhra/Kandamal/Anti-sikh/Anti-UP riots in > Gujarat/Orissa/Delhi/Mumbai. The only difference seems that in one > case the effect of discrimination are more longer term and less > visible (gory sequences of beating up people / burning up shops makes > more compelling viewing than students missing better opportunities for > better education). Also one is mostly class-based / caste based rather > than religion-based.
Isnt the media (probably the world-over) only concerned about the upswing in ratings and advertising revenues than digging out the truth, a tedious job at best. A student not realizing his dream of being a doctor because a reservation category student with lesser marks than him made the grade is just not juicy enough to activate outpourings of sympathy. -- .
