The Media Bullshitting!

1) The much trumpeted – all over the media- price hike in the motor vehicle space- four wheeler- never took place. Media asked people to ‘BUY’ vehicles before the last day of December 2007, as they were cent percent sure about the impending price hike!

2) Another much trumpeted ‘Home Loan Interest Lowering’ never came into being;
media this time gave a lot of ‘Basis Point’ reduction & all sort of statistics to make the home loan taker smile for a very short while!

3) Despite the hype & the media trumpeted publicity of the strong fundamentals & all of the Indian Economy & Growth, the Sensex crashed to make thousands of paupers.

4) The people who believed media reports- as they don’t have any other source of information!?!-that depicted a very rosy picture of the sound Indian Economy & the ‘Projected Image’ of the Companies, over subscribed heavily over priced public issues of “The Golden Companies Prescribed by The Fourth Estate” to find themselves in the gutter just a couple of weeks after they subscribed to these public offers.

5) When “the people in the know- media” ‘Projected’ results of the polls in Gujarat the common man trusted them to be fooled again by “The Very Surprising Results!’ And now we have the same with the Karnataka Poll Analysis & Projections!!!

6) When the media stated in VERY BIG letters that ‘Sawariya’ will be the NEXT BIG THING people believed it to see it bombing in the box office in a couple of days. These sort of 'Targetting People' without having anything to back the said/stated things at all, has beed a fad in the Fourth Estate for quite a long while now!

These sort of things have been happening for decades now.....The media always ‘supported, projected, favoured, highlighted, glorified, beatified and did whatever they wished to do’ only for those who paid them, backed them in situations, had enough power and money to do whatever they wished to do, had given them patronage, had the same outlook in any situation etc.Media, most of the times never stood with the common man; because, as the fourth estate pretty well knows, the common man can be and should be taken for granted and he will never be in a position to pay or back the media. Hence, media channels are mushrooming and more ‘Projections, Special Reports, Exclusive Editions & the like things’ are coming in hoards!