attacks on the media people

Insecurity is rising all over the world day by day. It is being noticed by every one without exceptions. Ofcourse more so in unstable reasons. Like maximum killings in Iraq and so. Media people or for that reason most of the middle class are soft target in case of any violence as we can't protect ourselves due to lack of any "power" whatsoever. This is all to be condemned. Without exception. But few of these incidences need closer look, on analysis they lead on to different meanings . . . . probably could have been avoided . . . .or they are something with different clues and conclusions. I will like to bring all that to a book, but i can't do that now so i will try to bring at least few of them in which i was directly concerned. Before going in to the details, Let me tell you that in conclusion i feel that part of the insecurity posed to media can be blamed to the attitude of the media people. They are running for "hot", "stunning", "garama Garam", "Masaledar" news alone! They are making it a news when and only when its hot. If its cold, its of no use to media people! For example, there was a serial "jeena isi ka nam hai". Every "group" of people including those with corruption and criminal charges were brought to show how people should live except any scientist or any buisenessman who have been doing so much for this country tolerating every injustice. Even media could not justify their devotion and hard work. Not even Abdul Kalam attracted them! And in this run for the garama-garam news many times they earn the wrath of even those who otherwise sympathise with them. It can happen by either ignoring the sensible presentable thing by which you at least lose the sympathy or by giving undue importance to something or a mixture of both when one of the parties is overpresented. Dear reader, the worst thing is doctors beating the media people. Although I am at Chennai, I can guess what might have happened. But bigger issue is what made doctors to become violent? In my opinion whole lot of the young generation of medical professionals in India is stresed. People, media and politicians are ignoring it. Before i explain further, let me tell you my story from Tamilnadu. Around 10 years ago when I was doing my internship at Madurai Medical college, a political party affiliated criminal was caught by the doctors in side the hospital campus with sickle in his hand. He was overpowered by the doctors when he was chasing a doctor . . . . . He was left by the police officials then and there with support of the poltiticised college administration. We had gone for a flash strike which lasted for 4 days. Another time (the two incidents occured within few months) a politicaly supported professor turned college administrator threw away our belongings from the hostel to show off his administrative skills. I still remember his threatenning voice- " I am telling this to you people not as a teacher, as an administrator". Again we went for flash strike which lasted for 4 days. In both these cases i was personaly in touch with the top media people at Madurai. Both the time they gave a cold shoulder. Rather one of the well circulated national daily brought out an article commenting on volatile situation in the hospoital indirectly blaming the junior doctors. In the same city after around 10 years by almost similar group a daily news paper's office with its employees was burnt! The whole country and i wish whole world would have been shocked. I too was terribly shaken. But knowing the people around, i was not surprised. I feel and i am telling it from my heart, by ignoring their earlier activities (they might have done more similar activites), media had made them stronger enough to attack and harm the media people themselves. Coming back to the young medical professionals, dear reader, we are all overstressed due to multiple factors. It includes uncertainty of carrier and job, unorganised services, poor recognition of skill and performance, substandard training, continuance of the slavery attitude (which was transmitted by the britishers to the then young Indian doctors) by the professors/ seniors. On the top of all that there is total mismatch in demand and supply and gross malinformation and corruption in the government programmes. About all that even today I keep talking to the media people but they are not abale to segregate the fully qualified practicing doctor and a junior doctor or between a corrupt person doing unethical practice and a principled hard working doctor. And in this tensed up insecure environment we all are made to live for the sake of the politicians! Media never talks about that. Media talks if a doctor holds a criminal who has ransacked in the hospital (other than doctor and hospital employee any one can become a patient, even a criminal is a patient only. And who is there to safeguard the doctors from these criminal elements? Have you ever thought?) and not if a criminal turned patient tortures the doctor. Have you ever imagined how the doctors would be coping with the criminalas/ politicians who live in the hospitals? Has any one tried to shoot that in a hidden camera?Dear friend, I again express my deep sorrow to those who were beaten by the doctors at Patnaa, but i feel it needs wider introspection to whole of the society thaan just a prersentation aabout attacks on the media people. killing in Kargil war is not compaarable with burning in the ofice by our own criminals.Dr. Manish Kumardrmanku@yahoo.co.in