The desire for malleable media shortens the political spectrum

“Every piece of moral indignation in social media Malalam today is a reason for political leaders and their cyber -warriors to target journalists” | Credit on Photo: Getty Images/Istockphoto

In politics, the official version is often quickly divorced at the seams. And when he solves, often the first reply of political parties accuses the media of the “wrong report”, accuse him of prejudice, and in some cases to solve cyber war on reporters who covered the story.

This is not to make the media out of the hook for its shortcomings, but something like a hydra, as a media, they often get collectively as one essence and break, regardless of whether someone is guilty or not. Every piece of moral indignation in the social media, Malayalam these days is a reason for political leaders and their cyber war for journalists. “Imagine, if one of our leaders said it? These magazines – described with the help of a peremal term – would have been attacked by him” have become a common refrain.

Politicians, political parties and their acolites have the relationship of love with news. But some of those who punish the media for its “erosion of value” and “reduction of impact” also want it to be pliable. This desire is reduced through the political spectrum. When he does not meet, the journalists are in shooting.

Recently, Kerala’s discussion about whom the chief minister would be if UDF under the direction of Congress came to power after the election in the Assembly in 2026, provoked and facilitated some senior congress leaders whose statements were added to the mill. But when this imaginary scenario led to a full -scale dispute in the Alliance, with some minor partners of the Alliance expressed their dissatisfaction, all the fault was laid on the media. Leaders were forbidden unofficial instruction in moving media, which is impractical and self -expressed.

The Union Minister and BDP leader Suresh Gopi seems to have realized that even the bad press is useful as long as the social media are polarized. First of all, the actor was annoyed last August, when he was asked about the report of the Committee K. Hem about the working condition of women in the Malayalam film industry. He filed complaints about the police for media for blocking his path.

In November last year, the loss of BDP in the choice of Palakkad led to rumors about changing the party leadership in the country. Naturally, the news was a number of news. When the break inside the party was outdoors, the party chief of the party proclaimed his anger on the media and warned journalists about the consequences. Although asking critical questions with civic activities is the main work of the media, often answers to legal requests varied from easy intimidation to intimidation on face to open threats on social networks. This is what makes political reporting difficult to navigate.

CPI (M), the main side in the LDF management in Kerala, never tried to hide its difficult relationships with the media. The party is combat even during normal interactions. The CPI (M) State Conference in Collamy has recently represented the party’s distrust of the media. As always, he showed the media center in a separate building outside the place. But journalists with passing to illuminate the event were undesirable in the media center, except for the meetings of the press and special interactions with leaders. If the reporters wanted the keys in their story or hold their breath, they had to go outside and cling to several trees lining the parking land near the end of the scorching day. Although it was not a great inconvenience, it still pointed out a bigger problem of “tokenism” that supports most political parties.

Every political formation in India seems to be concerned about the state of the media, but hardly anyone takes specific steps to facilitate journalism. That is why the sensing tribe of political journalists is diminishing. However, journalists should be aware that difficult times often give rise to quality journalism.

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