Point taken and I will try and keep that in mind sir. At times emotions do get the better of us.
I think the 3 points I made was not to you sir.
It was trying to expand the general outrage and the quantum of it when dealing with different cases.
Sunanda's case baffles me. This is a clear case where the establishment was used to silence a woman.
A Journalist should primarily be anti-establishment, no matter who the establishment is. In Sunanda's case the media and journalists have done a disservice. The tough questions were never asked. The investigative part of journalism was dealt a blow in this particular case.
Does the fact that Gauri Lankesh have anything to do with the shift of arguments on the subject of her murder to the state of journalism in the country?
Our discussion is on the secular activist Gauri Lankesh being shot dead in Bangalore. Many of us have suspicions that this murder was committed because of her anti-right wing stand, a loud and clamorous stand. In response, one set of arguments seeks not to contradict what we have been saying; that set says,"WHAT ABOUT the failure of liberal media to take up the cudgels when ...."
Literally, what-aboutery. A diversion of the discussion by dragging in something quite different, or, on the other hand, identical in form but not the same. Here we are talking about one woman's murder. Where is the scope for shifting the discussion to the acts of omission and commission of the liberal media?
Again, it was never intended as a reply to you.
Should have formatted my reply better.
Understood, thank you. It is like being hit sharply on the shin by a stone chucked in my general direction, and being assured with grave apologies that it was intended for my ankle.
This is again in the larger context of how the 'establishment' is trying to shield Tarn Tejpal. The reason why I brought these 3 cases is that the perpetrators in these 3 cases are part of the establishment.
You do realise that the establishment is the government and those entities standing behind the government, not NDTV or The Hindu? How on earth can the opposition to the government and the ruling party suddenly become 'the establishment'?
I fully understand that this standing back-somersault is needed to make your next argument. Understand and commiserate with you.
Gauri was anti-establishment to a large extent. She had ideological differences with BJP & RSS. She was also taking on Corruption in Karnataka govt.
If you look at her track record, her major involvement has been with civil rights, with the Naxalites and with secularism, heavily under threat in Karnataka in recent years. Your correcting the balance is only fair; but others, I, for instance, see this as a riding tide of action against liberals by the spiteful Sangh Parivar.
The people who with in 10 minutes of her death pointing fingers at BJP/Sangh are the same people who never questioned the establishment in the 3 cases I mentioned.
You haven't seen a movie for the last three months; how come you're going to one today?
There is a video is him clearly harassing the young woman.
Point I am trying make sir is that if this was some one like Asaram, would the same liberal media be as docile?
There is difference between informing about a crime and doing investigative and critical analysis.
The liberal has done the former and have forgotten to do the latter. I would love to be proved wrong if one can show me a debate on these 3 cases in liberal media in last 6 months.
Sir, all victims in these 3 cases were woman. One murdered and 2 "raped". The same moral outrage or critical analysis on these 3 cases has not happened in the same way as I see in other cases.
Truth oftentimes is disgusting sir.
Sunanda was part of the same circle until she was scorned and tried to expose powerful people in her anger. Do you even remember the outrage after her murder?
