Two odd reactions I saw last week from the readers and viewers of media. One, the reaction to the ongoing series by Samas in Tamil Hindu and the other to Gobinath Neeya Nanna.
Samas is writing about the three essentials Water, Earth and Sky. In the Water series, he is now writing about the livelihood of the people living in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. In one post he talks about the impact of exploitation of mineral sand. He points to a company called VV Minerals headed by a man called Vaigundarajan. Once this post was out, the hue and cry of negative reactions were immense. I had never seen such reactions before, it was as if the concerned company had hired someone to give negative comments.
The business might be legitimate, but when there is environmental hazard it is the right of a free press to point out policy holes to the government.
In Neeya Nanna, Gobinath did a show on "Doctors prescribing unwanted tests to patients". After this show suddenly the Tamil Nadu doctors in social media woke up. Appan kudurukule Elle matri some doctors started defending them. Some doctors associations went for agitation and gave complaints asking to ban such programs, some when on to create exclusive banners in Facebook criticizing how the show is conducted.
Never knew there are so many doctors using social media until they started to defend themselves after the recent Neeya Nanna.
Every profession has its +ve's and -ve's. The work of the media is to ask questions. I think Gobinath was fair in asking questions. If he had played Arnab Goswami then those doctors in the studio would have either ran away or "kadichu-fied" Gobi.
Of course the show was edited- All the shows are edited. It's no biggie in media. TRP, yes that's how the evil media works and like doctors they are not in life-saving profession.
Instead of making hue and cry these doctors\industrialists should start to introspect.
If you have power and money are you invincible.
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