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He took the nation for a ride. He bludgeoned ordinary folks doing their everyday routine. He played with scores of human life and terminated them mercilessly. You spent crores of rupees for over a year in the name of fair trial, giving him exclusive jail room, manpower to protect, special judges and sessions court. How did you get that money? Through the taxes that the people killed paid to you for better part of your life. Why does TV media walking around in every nook and corner of country and world trying to ask people Does he deserve death or life? What sort of silly question is that? What kind of world are we living? Why do we encourage such media coverage? Why should be proud of home minister who gives kudos to judiciary who took away time from crores of cases pending in its cupboard to attend to this one? And today you have all the media hampering for sound bites and again following a judgement into the case of two filthy rich brothers over distribution of gas? It ...

Image via Wikipedia They love to tickle. They love to drive people mad by highlighting petty issues. They love to miss facts. They love their "sources". They are only acting as conduit for their "sources". If you are following the latest breaking news and coverage by the TV news media in India then you would have noticed that every channel is getting sensational. I don't know if they feel the sensation but they surely are transmitting. Even the business channels have caught on the bug and are having political spokesman on their prime time . Hello, aren't you suppose to focus on business and quarterly results. Outlook magazine publishes a report based on its sources and the channels pick up the allegations and start to beat them to death. They are seen to be inserting the micro phone in mouth of people who are creating controversies, just to get the sound bit. Suddenly that sound bite becomes the news. The person is branded as "confident...