The story of media and two great politicians

Here i intend to compare two politicians who have two different ways of dealing with hostile media . Mr Y.S.R suffered a deluge of criticism both at personal and professional level from a couple of newspapers , so he decided to discredit them by calling them newspapers of opposition parties subtley suggesting that they are on the payrolls of a political party or the beneficiary of it’s policies . In addition to this he exhumed all their ‘crimes’ and started using them to arm-twist the media baron .This way he has been reasonably successful at discrediting them but also had to endure the blame of arm-twisting the media which is very offensive in a democracy like ours .While his ability to discredit the rival media organizations has it’s own lessons it is to be understood that his attempts to arm-twist the media baron has caused him serious embarassment as the entire journalistic fraternity has united against him portraying him as a villain and demon crushing the free-speech rights of the people . This has gathered momentum and fetched the media baron some sympathy in the eyes of neutral people .
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Criticizing the media in an objective manner helps oneself in discrediting the media of opposition party but at the same time one should understand that such media barons do not have any fixed loyalties as long as they dont have personal grieviances .If the media targets you it is very helpful even though the coverage is negative , like it happened with MR Narendra Modi . But the whole volley of hate campaign can be turned on it’s head only if the person is honest and hardworking for his people .This is exactly what happened with N.M ..He turned the entire emotion on it’s head by consistently performing good work .Infact the best way of dealing with media is the Narendra Modi way . His way is to gauge it but not get unnerved or worked up about the lies that were spread of him ..He knew that his good work will turn the whole monster on it’s head and Narendra Modi has become a Monster for those media groups to deal now .The more they deride him the more it’s viewers get attracted to N.M , this is ironical but is true .Please check out the polls on IBN for various candidates for P.M and you will end up seeing more votes for N.M . .So this means people are not going to buy motivated propaganda for too much time , one should keep doing their work honestly and he will get his due . Inaddition to that in the midst of the whole hate campaign that national news channels it so happens that they have to praise a word or two about the good work and that will translate into huge credibility for the politician becos if a person who trashes everyday comes out and say something good about you then that has more credibility than running 24 hours eulogy programmes owned by politicians .But one should be accessible to media without any personal animosities and better to beat them on their own courts by answering their questions aptly . Blacking out media channels is counter-productive .The best way to prove your political prowess is to go for a boiling interview on rival media platforms . This shows courage more than anything else and one can annihilate the media group on their own platform with effective and reasonable arguments .

The most important lesson from my policy towards media is that never should one pick up a personal grudge against a media group . One should appreciate that the entire process is due to ones political existence and politics is something that should be viewed with ice cold unpersonal eyes .Reason is the most powerful way of connecting to ones people ..