[Reader-list] Fwd: [Pragoti] Media reports and left's convention on food security and spiraling price rise.

[A. Mani]

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From: roopesh praj <roopesh_p_raj at yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Subject: [Pragoti] Media reports and left's convention on food
security and spiraling price rise.
To: pragoti at yahoogroups.com




Yesterday, Nov 25, the left parties held a convention on food security
and price rise in Bangalore with thousands of people marching in from
all across Karnataka. Party leaders of CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc spoke in
the occasion. The Hindu carried a report in some detail. TOI's
Bangalore Mirror carried a report on how the convention affected the
traffic in Bangalore. Usually the struggles taken by the left parties
are being blacked out by newspapers like TOI. An exception was the
coverage of the struggle taken out by the CPM in Tamil Nadu for temple
entry rights for the dalits. I would like to discuss on a nonsense
statement made by the Mirror reporter.

The Hindu report:

http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/26/stories/2009112660540400.htm

Bangalore Mirror report:

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/2009112620091126004211159307243f/Reds%E2%80%99-march-drives-city-red.html

Mirror reporter has made a ridiculous allegation “After some time, the
stretch from Majestic to KR Circle was covered with party workers,
most of whom didn’t even know their purpose of visit”.

This statement is pure manipulation, how the hell Mirror(TOI pub)
reporter know that the party workers were unaware of the purpose of
visit?. The march was for food security and against rising price rise,
the issues are of no significance to the irritated techie* riding to
his office or the irresponsible Mirror reporter.

The march had thousands of very poor Kannadigas for whom newspapers
like TOI, BM do not spare even quarter a page. Most of those marched
were illiterate but knew what they were marching for. They are people
yet to come out of the shocking blow that the recent flood forced upon
them. They are people who are left with nothing, their property
destroyed, their cattles drowned, don't have a house to stay, ration
cards are for namesake, many are not even having ration cards for they
are landless. They marched in shambled unclean clothes, after a long
tiresome journey from faraway places. There were women, old, young,
kids, students. Newspapers like Mirror, more precisely yellow
newspapers like Mirror, might find it unpleasant to see shambled
clothes marching in Cyber city's roads. Mirror's irresponsible
reporter did not even care to know the issues those thousands of
people were raising. They should atleast come to the next convention
to hear from those thousands of poor people, to hear from them how
they are living, what they are expected, how they are being fooled.
They represent a large proportion of population who are not readers of
yellow newspapers like TOI. But TOI should give atleast little regard
to journalistic ethics, something that they are supposed to follow.
Though it is an appeal, never expect TOI to give space to the
grievances of the oppressed, for they have decided that their readers
value snaps of bikini clad Britney Spears to the real issues Indian's
are facing.

Another factual error in Mirror report "With nearly 10,000 people
marching under the banner of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)". It
was not organised by CITU but by CPI, CPM, AIFB combine.

*techie - mentioned in Mirror report

Thanks

Roopesh.


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