Can anyone rely on these media people???????

Only if you are the center of the news you will know the lies of the media circulating around you.

Hindu-5,000 lawyers participated.
Times of India-10,000.
Deccan Chronicle-15,000.
Indian Express - Mammoth rally.

The above are the number games played by the media regarding the Lawyers' Rally for Justice at Chennai on 19.3.2009.
Unfortunately, because to suppress the news of lawyers rally, Saravanabhavan owner's news dominated todays first page of all the news papers.
It is ok, lawyers are not politicians and they don't need any publicity.
But we should remember when ever any sensational(ised) news (Rapes and Murders) published by these medias (Ex.Arushree's case), lets be careful before we believe them.

-vsk.

Orwellian Doublespeak and a Kafkaesque media

Sections of the media which have bent over backwards to placate a State Government which is handing out largesse including and not limited to advertisements have recently demonstrated that they will stoop to any extent to suppress the truth and belittle the movement of lawyers. Earlier front page articles spoke of unexploded petrol bombs being hurled at police jeeps, cops coming to hand over resignations to the Police Commissioner at the High Court campus having their wrists slashed, senior police officers being stripped but being able to send SMSs, the dirty tricks department of the Police found willing partners in their campaign in a section of the media, which was shamelessly indulging in disseminating propoganda as news.

What took the cake was the coverage of yesterday's rally of thousands of lawyers (estimates range from 35,000 and 50,000 participants). Take the Hindu for instance. Unremitting in its disdain for the lawyers struggle for justice and solicitious of police sensitivity and political concern, the Hindu took the leap from the bizarre to the incredible today. Falling over in haste to trivialise the turnout, the Hindu in its online edition initially said that there were 2,000 lawyers in the march, revised it to about 5,000 and by this morning's print edition had reduced it to a few hundreds. We wouldnt be surprised if this is revised downwards to "dozens" by tomorrow's edition. With this latest insult to reader's intelligence, the fall to ignominy was complete. What a change from Mr. N. Ravi's hard hitting editorials and Ms. Malini Seshadri's unflagging criticism of the establishment. We wouldnt be surprised if the Hindu carried a front page interview with Mr. M. Karunanidhi in the manner of Harish Khare's "exclusive" interview with Atal Bihari Vajpayee for no ostensible reason other than the fact that he was the Prime Minister of the Country.
Posted by Mr.T Mohan