Job´ber`nowl`-ism

Most at times I get to know about a piece of news from the 140 characters written by the people that I follow on twitter. By the time you follow down the time line for the tweets that came in in the last 3 hours, you would get to know what the specific news was and the reviews by the twitterati that followed it. But now days it difficult, not that it’s difficult to follow tweets, but it has become difficult to differentiate original and fake news. 

Interestingly, these headlines were not written by Faking News or UnReal Times.  Most at times it is just the headline that would be misleading, that makes you feel that that is fake news.

To an extent even yesterday, it was the headline that made most of the people jump the gun.

People consider the army as a sacred institution, so the way they have reacted is just natural but that doesn't mean that they need to leave their keyboards and pens and join the military; they will not. At the same time, it is not that the army is not to be criticised for anything. Yes, we should have the freedom and the journalists should have the courage and balls to criticise the functioning of any institution in Indian democracy based on strong and solid facts.  

In fact this time it was not just the headline, the whole story was written in such a style. It is well known that the relationship between the government and the army is at an all-time low. But the heading, the style of writing and defence by other publications and channels were showing out their interests in taking down the government. Shekhar Gupta while making his defence on various news channels yesterday night, was stressing on the point that he was just laying down the facts. Not pretty professional, since those were laid down on a velvet mat.

In fact a few months back, after Sri. Subramaniam Swami’s article on the DNA, a friend of mine decided never to use that paper even to wipe his ass. I believe that Indian Express is at least printed on better quality paper.