Comments on: The Biggest Media Cover Up Kerala Ever Saw

By: Vanitha Magazine, Internet and the Mobile phone

Vanitha Magazine, Internet and the Mobile phone — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:34:47 +0000

[...] Biggest Media Cover Up In Kerala [...]

By: Shaiju Janardhanan

Shaiju Janardhanan — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:14:14 +0000

Hi Kenny,I dont think a man with a high criminal records is a justification for someone with minimal criminal acheivements.Santhosh Madhavan is a criminal,nobody can deny that now.The cases proved against him may be just the tip of an iceberg.Who in the world knows what other criminal activities he was into other than cheating people and molesting girls.Your article seems to give an aura of innocence to this so called god man.He is a criminal and he should be hunted for his crimes.As you said the media in Kerala is one with minimum professional standards and ethics.What they can do now is do some investigation about the political ties this man has.As a believer and supporter of democracy and the judicial system of our country I have strong conviction that our infamous arms dealer will one day pay for his acts.

By: febin

febin — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:25:17 +0000

In fact I agree with both the views. It is neither the media controlling collective psyche nor the other way round alone. I would say we are are all controlling each other. The Media is contributing a big part in shaping up the collective psyche (or the ‘market’ form the perspective of the Media) and at the same time the market decides what media should show it.

To get out of this vicious cycle is not that easy, the only solution is gradually evolving out of it, and can be done only by being aware of the direction we need to move.

In short blaming each other will not help any of us. The media is a part of the society and both (media and society) needs to complement each other.Let us make more people aware of it and speed up the process of evolving.

By: Harish Krishnan

Harish Krishnan — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:08:37 +0000

A very interesting post!
@mohan When you say ‘Kerala is such a safe and secure place that we cannot imagine foreign, locally unprecedented and nonexistent elements like arms, arms dealers, wars etc’. I won’t agree. To give you an example. You can take the Malayalam Film Industry. Do you think the stories behind the movies are made up and not inspired by real life happenings? I completely agree with Kenney when he says that a smaller fish has been caught and the bigger fish have escaped. It has happened in the past and will continue to happen till Corruption exists.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:33:50 +0000

The media in kerala is obsessed with sex, fights inside political parties and such news that they dont have time for an issue of national importance..
But compared to the masala addiction in the national media, this is nothing..

loved Mohan’s comments too

By: VJ

VJ — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:53:34 +0000

good post..I am waiting for ur thread on Abhaya case and d Sabha’s cover up.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:49:36 +0000

Well, dont worry about the coming generations JMJ. This trend wont last for more than 3-4 years. It may end even sooner.

The spirit of true journalism will never be lost. If the present organisations degrade beyond recovery, there’ll be some people in those places who are disgusted by the change, who will break away, and start new firms. Such is the spirit of journalism.

By: JMJ

JMJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:23:53 +0000

@ Mohan

It is not the question of understanding the business side of it – it is just that I am worried about the amount of damage it will do the coming generations.

The true passion of Journalism will be lost – and masala will become the new recipe…

It is a sad situation – But how can we come up with a solution whereby it causes minimum damage to the people in general…

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:41:51 +0000

@JMJ – now you’re reiterating my words Glad to know that you finally got what I meant

What you’ve just mentioned, is the problem with Kerala media today. But it can’t pop out just like that and solve the problem. It’ll take time, and lots of competition. The competition will begin by the end of 2008, with ToI, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, and many other startup media firms setting up shop. Also, in early 2009, the television media will be forced to evolve, with CNN IBN starting a Malayalam news channel, and entering the Kerala market.

By: JMJ

JMJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:58:32 +0000

Hi everybody – this looks like a conversation between me and Mohan. Sorry if we are boring you – but hope we are making some sense to all you guys out there.

@Mohan
What you say is true – give what your customer whats – otherwise he goes to the next shop.

But by doing that – the media is de-meaning its own value. Moreover it is the people who have to understand and value. Otherwise more wars will be fought on cartoon WMD’s that the Pentagon wants to show…