India's Dumbest Media mindsets!

Why does the media even report "Nine Eleven" in India? Shouldn't it be "Eleven Nine" at worst? And then, to add insult to injury, we have "Seven Eleven" referring to the 11th of July bombings in Mumbai? How much of this sort of insult do we have to take from our monkeys in media? What is so appealing about white man's media that we have to lose all sense of who we are?

Why is it that Karan Thapar is always in a hurry to ask a question before the guest finishes answering the previous one? Hard Talk is hard but for most part it is respectable. Karan Thapar's Devil's Advocate is a poor imitation if that is what he is trying to imitate, and is a lousy original if he is that ambitious. Is being intimidating the ONLY quality available to Thapar for an inquisitive interview? By forcing people to be defensive all the time, the idiot just stamps himself all over, not getting anything out of his guests but flabbergasted sighs of resignation!

There are the second and third rungs of Indian television news channels like Times Now! Most of the time, they have no clue how to get precise, unemotional responses out of anybody being interviewed. The "live reporting" is usually brave enough to stand where stones are being pelted, but not awake enough to go beyond commenting on what we can already see in the background.

On CNN-IBN today there was an accidentally brilliant juxtaposition. Finance Minister Mr. Chidambaram just finished addressing the media to assure us that there is nothing to panic about in the Indian banking sector due to the failure of some American financial institutions, and the immediate next news item was a man, his wife and son committing suicide by burning themselves in Hyderabad, due to losses in the stock market! This is the sort of stuff that makes us weigh what we see and hear. Our media works very hard not to make this kind of thing happen.

It is always funny to me how the mentally challenged monkeys in our media, particularly television, jump to the tunes of the equally incompetent monkeys in the West. Each time I hear the term "nuclear capable", I cannot help but notice this habit highlighted. It is one of the most ignorantly used terms in reporting, and adds to no purpose beyond sensationalism. It is shameful and dumb, and needs to be questioned at every opportunity.

"Nuclear capable" simply stands for "capable of carrying a nuclear bomb". What isn't capable of carrying a nuclear bomb? A missile doesn't know what it is carrying, any more than a mule. A nuclear bomb is simply a payload for a missile, and this exact same payload can be strapped onto the back of a mule, so all mules in the world are "nuclear capable" indeed. The car you drive is most definitely "nuclear capable" and schoolbuses, very much so! Indian bullock carts? Now, those are definitely weapons of mass destruction! Let the frivolous use of this term not scare you any more than the fools hammering us with it.

To make a nuclear bomb takes some expertise, particularly the trigger mechanism that can set off the nuclear reaction that releases a great amount of energy. That is the explosion itself, and then the radiation coming out of the fallout creates more damage. But a nuclear explosion is not easy to trigger. It isn't the same as putting a stick of dynamite into a bottle full of uranium and blowing it up. That would just cause some radioactive material to fly around and this is what constitutes a "dirty bomb". Why anybody would waste expensive nuclear material to cause such minimal damage is beyond me, but the West salivates over the possibility of such an event.

The worst insult is the expectation that somehow we will react exactly the way people in the West would react. Hence the polls, which always have the dumbest questions that people will easily be able to send SMS messages for or against! "Are reservations good?" "Is the government doing enough?". How about, "Would you approve of an assassination attempt against a corrupt politician?" ? Now, that would be too challenging for our fashionably new, dumbed down (m)asses, wouldn't it?