I felt so moved by reading this post that I thought I should put up a link from here so that at least a fraction of the people who stop by my blog read this.
CNN-IBN (along with other media channels/newspapers) has taken up the issue of the Srikrishna report - the way the contents of the report published circa ‘98 were brushed under the carpet, soon after Dutt's verdict. I smiled saying that the old 50's journalism (where media was a one-way, broadcasting tool) is giving way to a more participatory journalism (aka the User Generated Content in Web 2.0 parlance, if you prefer it that way). At last, people have started actively reacting to the news. The educated and the savvy have started asking the representatives elected by their illiterate and ignorant countrymen, who queued up in polling booths while the former were cooling their knees off in front of their TV sets watching the voter-turnout statistics. Good, isn’t it? But hang on. If Srikrishna report has indeed been brushed under the carpet, why didn't the media come up with its "awareness drive" any earlier? After all, neither the incident, nor the report is new.
This is where capitalism speaks (to give you the answer). Mr. Sardesai* is too seasoned a journalist to know that raking up the Srikrishna report issue "just any fine day" would only make him look anti-Hindu. He needed bait to lure people, make them click their tongues and say, “Ooh! Yeah. We forgot about that report”. He sensed one in Dutt’s verdict, didn't he? They run the channel for money, not charity - mind you. Who said you cannot just wait for the opportune moment to bring up...eh, your TRP?
*or any other journalist who has started harping on the report in the past couple of days
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