@Hema

U seem to be very frustrated with the media..

Very aptly said. I would not have put this across any better. Thanks!

As a reader I am concerned about the quality of news being dished out. My ’shallow’ understandings tell me that a journallist should ask: What, How, When, Who, Where, and Why’.

I hardly find any of these interrogatives in the stories and this is my main grouse. Well you summed it best that political news have preference over all other news. So we have a smiling CM or a minister waiving at crowds at a foundation stone laying cermony splashed across the front page. An anganwari worker’s death can wait. A constable in ITBP killed in an explosion in Kabul can also wait. No one questiones why the state govt is partial in announcing a lesser ex-gratia to his family. Why should loss of life of a constable be lesser than a Brigadier? The irony here is, the fourth estate in the state is bending in front of politicians. The points raised in your second post are valid points. I wonder why I don’t get to read these in newspaper columns!

Mark my words.. print media is going to face an onslought from the web in future. Functioning of journalism is far more important than the format of it. ]]> http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/07/18/anganwadi-worker%e2%80%99s-suicide-no-one-cried-foul-but-govt-in-the-dock/1575/#comment-40981 Hema D Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:56:20 +0000 http://www.himvani.com/?p=1575#comment-40981 It is very unfortunate that when ever a party comes to power it does not work as a government for the people of the state but it continues to function as party for people with lineations or affilitaions to the party. This very important for the leaders to understand that whether a work or appointment is done by the "govt" when BJP is in power or when Congress is in power, should be treated as a work done by a government but not by a party. After teh peopel elect a party to power and they take charge as functionaries of the govt. system they should "in public interest" not only act as partymen but do justice to all. But it has now become a trend in Himachal that whatever Congress did the BJP undid it and vive-versa. And in a fresj case the Congress has once again anounced in case of scrapping of the Tribunal, quoting State Congress Committee President Kaul Singh, "If the BJp does not restore the Tribunal the Congress will do so when it comes to power". There seems no respite. And will teh govt. only be shaken up when ther are suicide (Anganwadi),protests (PTAs)or processions-pad yatra (Ekal Nari-Single Women)? It is very unfortunate that when ever a party comes to power it does not work as a government for the people of the state but it continues to function as party for people with lineations or affilitaions to the party.
This very important for the leaders to understand that whether a work or appointment is done by the “govt” when BJP is in power or when Congress is in power, should be treated as a work done by a government but not by a party. After teh peopel elect a party to power and they take charge as functionaries of the govt. system they should “in public interest” not only act as partymen but do justice to all. But it has now become a trend in Himachal that whatever Congress did the BJP undid it and vive-versa. And in a fresj case the Congress has once again anounced in case of scrapping of the Tribunal, quoting State Congress Committee President Kaul Singh, “If the BJp does not restore the Tribunal the Congress will do so when it comes to power”.
There seems no respite. And will teh govt. only be shaken up when ther are suicide (Anganwadi),protests (PTAs)or processions-pad yatra (Ekal Nari-Single Women)?

Equally shocking is the role of state media who have failed to highlight this news. Instead of re-phrasing the press releases issued by the govt, the press must be little more vigilant. It is still not late. They can always pick this story from Himvani. It is there duty to highlight such unfortunate incidents. ]]>