Dalit
Digital Media:- Shuddering
The Hinduized News Media!! Part I
By Saint
15 August , 2008
Countercurrents.org
Ambedkartimes.com
run by our Prem Chumber is completing a successful second year, let
us all congratulate PremJi and to those who support this internet
news site.
Ambedkartimes, is a modern and digital dalit media news that was started by Prem Chumber two years ago, an ardent Ambedkarite our brother, friend and a Buddhist who lives in Sacramento, CA. Premji recently started Ambedkartimes in Hindi language too (www.ambedkartimes.org).
It is important to recognize the hard work, dedication and forward
looking mission of this website, like Prem Chumber there are numerous
dalit/Ambedkarite/Buddhists who are doing their share in splintering
the hindu media in India as well the world media, by taking dalit
issues to the center stage on their own terms but not waiting for
the established news groups.
The main news papers like Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, Daily
Thanthi, Deccan Herald and other similar such news groups in India
are still following the biased and self centered policies, they seldom
have any time to write about issues that are tarnishing the Indian
society and the future of India. All these news groups cannot and
will not focus on real issues, furthermore they outrightly ignore
the dalit issues in particular. I said about this time and again in
my upliftthem blogs, I am not going to change this stand on Indian
media or the foreign media who writes about India. They all have the
same approach, it is their nature, it is their very altruistic and
bigotry nature and they often ignore to give due importance to dalit
issues.
Unfortunately, those readers and internet visitors who cling to this modern news systems like internet, blogs and message groups are also doing the same mundane things in their writings, these young writers do share those traditional bigoted approach like the News Papers, however there are few exceptions that you will notice elsewhere in this editorial.
What is happening in the Digital world?
Ever since internet and IT became part of our lives, there is a tremendous transformation of our communication system, communication media, interpersonal communications and also in the press and TV media. This is a great challenge for the traditional media, so they have all facing this challenges some of them make it, and others are loosing the battle in this changing times?.
But, for the right thinking individuals and groups, this changing times are a superb opportunity to grab and boot the conventional news, as the consequence is our emergence of digital media, which is sending shrills into the spines of shivering "Traditional Media."
This is true as far as Indian national news media groups concerned,
certainly also true in the international media networks like New York
Times, Times,Observer or Gaurdian like news. It is the modern bloggers
and the internet news sites that are making tremendoous progress steadily
among the readers, just ask New York times or other such giant news
moguls about how much revenue they are loosing from advertisement
and subscriptions, you will know the truth. Ironic, is in't??. This
is happening at the price of these news media carrying mundane, celebrity
driven and worthless news by ignoring what people actually need and
what this society needs in terms of news on a day to day basis.
The traditional Indian news groups like Hindu, Indian Express and
Times of India and the likes are fully staffed by hindu people who
are to the most part are chauvinistic, casteistic people, who cannot
think out of their little "Frog's Well" to say so!?.
First of all, the newsmen and woman in India have this eternal bias
and bigoted heads, but the other issue is the "Fear of loosing
everything they accumulated and squandered by betraying the society
and poor people?. If dalits move into the media, and if they become
media moguls in India, which will be the disastrous end to all those
who are running the news group. There will be hardly any non hindus
(majority Indians such as the Shudras, Bcs and Sc, Sts) will buy the
traditional media), this means only 15% of the population of India
who will care about the traditional media, the rest of 85% the real
non-hindus will go for the insightful dalit media.
Dalit Media,
oh yea?, what is dalit media anyways?. I am quite sure there is lot
of Indians including some dalits asking this question or pondering
over whatever is Dalit Media is all about?.
Some of the Blogs and website that are challenging the traditional
news papers are listed, these to the most part are run by dalits,
except few but the few of them are genuine writers who seek attention
to dalit issues (blogs such as: Ultra violet). Some of the Key blogs
and sites are listed below, they range from Dalits writers blog to
others who honestly see this casteism and it's pathological effect
of Indian society, needs utmost importance to change India. These
only few of the several other blogs and sites that are not mentioned
here are doing their part of cleaning up the media monopoly and making
sure that people get the right news at the right time. Some of those
blogs are listed here:
I. Dalit Blogs for Dalits upliftment:
UpliftThem:
http://upliftthem.blogspot.com
GreatScholar: http://greatscholar.blogspot.com
BabaSaheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar & his People: http://www.ambedkar.org/
Atrocity News: http://atrocitynews.wordpress.com
Ambedkartimes: http://ambedkartimes.com
Dalit Solidarity News: http://dalits.blogspot.com/
Dalit Newwork News:
http://www.dalitnetwork.org/go?/dfn/blog
Apocryphal, A Gossip Corner on Dalit issues: http://apocryphal.wordpress.com/
Thus Spoke Dr.Ambedkar: http://ambedkarquotes.wordpress.com/
Meena Kandasamy: http://meenu.wordpress.com/
Nepal Dalit:http://rajendraonline.wordpress.com/
Eradicate Manual Scavenging: http://www.swachchakar.blogspot.com/
Super Hindus & Enormous Crime: http://superhindus.wordpress.com/
Samatha Blog:Community of Dalits: http://samatha.freeflux.net/
Dalit Voice: www.dalitvoice.org
Kuffir: http://kufr.blogspot.com/
bhupinder: http://readerswords.wordpress.com/
Dalit Murasu:http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/dalitmurasu/
Counter Currents:http://www.countercurrents.org/
II.
Blogs that Justifiably supports dalit upliftment:
Mutiny India: http://mutiny.in/
Cyber Gandhi: Escape From India: http://escapefromindia.wordpress.com/
Kafila: http://kafila.org/
Ultra Violet:http://youngfeminists.wordpress.com/
Blogbharti: http://www.blogbharti.com/
III. Alternatie Foriegn Blogs/Sites: Shaking the traditional NYTimes like news in USA
Pirates
Cove: http://www.thepiratescove.us/
Counter Punch: http://www.counterpunch.org
Alternet News: http://www.alternet.org/
Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/
Media Matters for America:http://mediamatters.org/index
Anyone who goes through these alternate digital news blogs and sites
would appreciate the sear knowledge, straightforward analysis of events
by these individual writers can stand distinctively than that of Times
of India, Hindu or New York Times. Is this is the beginning of demolishing
the bigotry in the established trational media in the world which
is simply owned by few people and they make billions through selling
news that are made up stories, to the most part, but nothing to do
with helping people and uplifting the needy society?.
will be continued in the part II....
Saint
is the Author of the Upliftthem blog, http://upliftthem.blogspot.com
