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Let's not draw lines within the media, highlighting one aspect, while hiding another. It's a free set-up, and which is why most people love and hate it with equal vigour. Imagine a day when newspapers highlight all misgivings in society, while consciously not delivering anything that's worth its readership, by which, I mean the usual fashion, movies news. Why are the media critics always dragging the farmer into debates when talking about the darker side of journalism, I don't understand!
To my mind, equating a journalist who writes on fashion, to be equated with someone who writes on Vidarbha, is a sad comparison. If a journalist wants to write on fashion, society, what is wrong with going over the top sometimes on it? There is enough readership to be created, and I am one such person who reads just about everything that's printed! Am I then not a part of "that" national consciousness which holds its regard for the agrarion sector or the hardships involved there? Who is anyone to judge me on it? Why should we create benchmarks for the sake of living in a false sense of nationhood?
Someone who doesn't watch IPL, or reads reports on Bollywood, is not a purist in my eyes, neither will I disregard someone who only follows movies or fashion like a religion. Let's get real for once.
Neha