known to the public. Government employee from the highest level to the lowest is not expected to give “exclusive interviews” to any TV channel or matters dealing with state. Any matter dealing with the State that needs to be communicated to the public should be done through press conference or media communiqué or spokesperson. A union minister or any senior official hobnobbing with the private channel and entertaining them is favoritism therefore a grave case of corruption. By its very nature "exclusive" is partisan, governments are not here to work on the TRP of private channels. After every “high profile” case even senior police official are found giving interviews to TV channels. Is that there job?. Is this how state machinery function in a democracy?. Astounding. Secondly just because a case is high profile doesn’t mean that it gets precedence over others, since high profile word is a construct of market media in most cases (who leaks the video of narco test?. It is a serious case of privacy violation. Does this land have any privacy laws?). The recent rape case by small time hindi film actor was attempted to play through media. Fixers and manipulators got in and tried to subjectify the crime that was still under investigation. All norms and decency was thrown out, even the CM of Maharashtra was found reacting. What a shame.
This blogger agrees that a minister could give an interview to a particular channel or print media as part of getting to know the person- about the minister as a person and his overall views on issues, afterall he/she is a public person. But to give access to a particular TV channel or print media of his liking on every matter and his/her exclusive views is serious dereliction of oath he took (media and others are excited about who gets what during swearing-in ceremony…but what oath was read is much important. It is no small matter or routine. It has to be followed in word and spirit, otherwise why have these expensive mockery?).
When senior minister or official hobnobs with the media (clearly for personal gains later, it’s a tacit understanding) it has direct influence on morale of the junior members and staff, it sets a bad precedence and culture of sycophancy. This is one way corruption gets institutionalized. Generally when most ministers are from
Post Script: this blogger congratulate the Education minister Kapil Sibal for the revolutionary steps taken to make the education system sensitive and learning an enjoyable process. Round of applause for that!!.
Condolence
s: Lohithadas was a one of the brilliant script writer and director this nation has seen in recent times. This blogger is personally indebted to him. It so happened that my understanding of Malayalam movies in my earlier part of life was limited, just few movies in VCR or DD, so when I was studying in college (in my first year) Kireedom was released. It was a path breaking movie and it had immense influence on me (incidentally it was my very first movie in Kerala), i started to have great liking for Malayalam movies. That period also coincided with some amazing movies being made, I was hooked. Lohithadas had scripted many of these movies, it was sensational to say the least. Later while in
Lohithadas belonged to a traditi
on that had produced some of the greatest malayalam film directors like Bharatan,
