Be there an earthquake, flood or a disaster any time of the day or night, Newspapers comes out with all the facts and figures accurately the very next day. You get all the details about how all the roads have been submerged in water or how roads are blocked due to land slide, how villages are not accessible by road and where railway lines have been washed away. Electrical and telecommunication lines are snapped, bad whether making aerial survey impossible etc.
These headlines and sub headlines will follow more details like 638 people died, 1201 missing, 118 cattle washed away, 3114 houses collapsed and estimated loss of 3410.51 crores, phew! Commonsense says that these numbers are not estimated otherwise it would have been in rounded off numbers. They are exact and that too, up to the last digit and even in decimals. It is another matter as to how come these data are released the very next day of a calamity when communication is snapped; villages are not accessible by any mode like rail, road or air due to unfavorable climatic conditions.
Same yardstick applies to day to day scams taking place in our country. As far as I can remember, the first big scam was ‘Jeep Scandal’ during the regime of Mr. Nehru. In fact our country is now enflamed in scams and there is no respite. After CWG and Adarash Building scam, it is the 2 G spectrum scam now! It is reported that Rs.1.76 lakh crore presumed loss to the national exchequer on account of this scam.
I envy and salute these reporters and even government officials who have a sort of third eye to roll out the facts and figures with such precession in no time!
There was this scandal with Mrs Gandhi in the mid-1970s, for corruption which resulted in the imposition of the Emergency. Then with Bofors, in 1987.
ReplyDeleteyes you are right..!! and probably the worst thing is that the facts and figures that are given are different on every news channels or news paper, actually ur article reminded me of the comic act that famous comedian Raju Srivastava performed in which he made fun of each and every news channel.
ReplyDeleteOh, trust the media to come out with information! They sure will. And what better than the Radia tapes to showcase that, for starters!
ReplyDeleteThat was a tongue in cheek pot-shot at the media and bureaucracy :)
ReplyDeleteI think the best thing to have happened to our country is the RTI, which allows you and me to take anyone to task.
Yes, it has been a wonder to me too, that how can they roll out statistics. Financial scams I understand a little that they may be having reports, accounts, data but in mishaps how? Does anybocy stand in a corner and count?
ReplyDeletebtw... did you get all these facts over 2G communication channels? LOL, true but weird!
ReplyDeleteVery nice flow.Good article
ReplyDeletereporting is a tough job... just that few of them out there are influenced by political proximity
ReplyDeleteIn the age of breaking news, we have learnt to take everything with a pinch of salt.
ReplyDeleteWe blame the media for a lot of things but we do have to give them an applause for the investigative journalism they have exhibited on their channels...come to think of it their sources may have ulterior motives too, and the media is just a willing front!....chess moves perfected!
ReplyDeletei always thought the figures rolled out are estimated information unless it was claimed to be a fact by the news reporter. and looks like there is no end to all the scams happening.
ReplyDeleteRightly said, but it's high time we stop getting used to these figures and the scams. It seems intolerance is the buzzword now for the common man.
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Yes, but, what should concern most of us is, Has any one been convicted till date?
ReplyDeletedefinitely the 118 cattle like figures are weird. people would be too bothered about human lives for a few days to think of other things including property
ReplyDeleteI guess its their job...
ReplyDeleteBut again its media whose efforts are visible-for ex:- scams- media= graveyard of public money.
ReplyDeleteThere is this statement the swami in the movie sarkar makes "janata ki yaad dash bahut kamzor hoti hai" (I.e memory of the masses is weak) which is why new scams turn up ..because the masses forget the older ones and get brave again!
ReplyDeleteEvery scam can finally be attributed to our incredible soft laws which allow these guys to get away easily.
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Don't we wish that we had the same estimation abilities for day to day life? :)
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your posts make for an interesting read....somehow i always take what the media says with a pinch of salt...
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