MEDIA YA BHEDIYA (WOLVES)

Every elections, a certain coterie of journalists are known to publicly express their political sentiments and leanings. But speaking on behalf of politicians or supplying them with suggestive replies to pesky queries posed during press conferences (PCs) certainly takes the cake that too by certain senior journos.
So also a new trend being observed in the print media these days is the eye-catching front page and half-page regional party or scam-tainted politician adverts appearing in the disguise of news items supposedly written by either reporters, correspondents or freelance writers in two of the state's leading English dailies.
What makes a sharp reader smell a rat and be extremely suspicious of this tomfoolery is the very fact that the articles in the two dailies read verbatim, parantheses by parantheses.
And I strongly feel if this is not opposed or protested by us journos, this trend could spell the demise of active journalism in the state with certain publications now deciding to sell their print space to the higgest bidder and openly express their political viewpoints instead of maintaining a neutral stand and letting its reader be the judge of the various political parties in the state.