Who wins the blame game?
by Mohanmeet Khosla IT is said that the concept of the good old days is a mirage they seem ‘good’ only because they have spent so much time in the editing. We hark back to the time when journalism was a mission, a vehicle of social reforms and of political independence, a catalyst for economic change, and most important, a voice of the voiceless. We look back and mourn for what is more. But we would be wrong. That journalism is still out there – it is just that it has been crowded out. We have had our share of scandal sheets in the past. Editors did succumb to pressures from the powers that be, isms did cloud the issue, the pen was misused to settle personal scores. But then, they were the exception rather than the rule. Today, the numbers don’t read right. The boundaries between reality and fiction, facts and rumours, objectivity and bias, fairness and sensationalism, right and wrong, decency and vulgarity, issue and trivialities, are blurring. Who do we believe? Following disillusion
