When the year 2007 started Offstumped had speculated if
2007 will go down as the year that ended the Monopoly of the Mainstream Media in selling a Single Version of Truth
little did we know then that an innoccuous post on the costs of a Ceremonial Presidency would ring true many months later with this Indian Express today editorial titled “They the privileged” that said
“a system that accords unaccounted privileges to VIPs will end up undermining us, the people”
It is symbolic that as the Year 2007 winds down, the mainstream media is catching up on an issue that the Indian Blogosphere lead the charge on during 2007.
On 16th June when Congress President Sonia Gandhi foisted on this Nation her choice for nominee of President Pratibha Patil to succeed President APJ Abdul Kalam the mainstream media went gaga over the prospect of the first woman President. The blogosphere on the other hand was the first to set aside Gender Correctness aside to take a close and hard look at her record and ask tough questions to conclude that her Presidency would be a repudiation of everything her predecessor stood for.
The defining moment however came when public intellectuals like Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni took notice of the ground that the blogs were breaking to launch a website and subsequently a booklet that became the center piece of the campaign against Pratibha Patil.
It was a defining moment in the history of Indian Blogosphere as it found itself at the heart of the political firestorm that had gripped the nation.
There were other defining moments too through 2007 that saw the blogs steal a march on the mainstream when the CIA Archives were released, the Tehelka expose and the Nandigram issue.
In closing Offstumped congratulates all those brave bloggers who challenged conventional wisdom to have a qualitative impact on the public discourse in India during 2007.
Offstumped also thanks all you who have raised the bar for this blog with your incisive comments and questions.
Wishing you a Happy 2008…….
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With mainstream media having become more or less a proxy for the ruling establishment, blogs are indeed doing a great job in filling the space vacated by it in the area of balanced and intelligent analysis.
However, I also believe that a golden era of media where editors played editors and reporters really reported news (instead of playing the political party workers they have become today) never existed. I believe that it is really the advent of internet and blogs that made media shriller and more perverse, because it could no longer exercise total control over dissemination of information.
Good post, you’ve summed it up well.
The MSM is not reliable in any way.
Dear Yossarin,
You have been doing a great job of exposing the psecs. Keep it up. Only very recently i discovered your blog and now i am regular reader. I consider this as the best blog i have seen so far. Wish you too a very happy 2008.
Dear Yossarin…..doing a great job…keep it up ..
Dear Yossarin:
Wish you a Happy New Year.
May the likes of you grow.
hi Yossarin
Wish you a Happy New Year
With mainstream media is onsided, You are doing a fantastic job in getting the truth to light.
People Say “Truth always triumphs”. Today I can say, you are the one who brings us the truth
Keep up the good work