The Hindu reports that the media was exhorted to ‘fight for the common man’.
Okay. So common man who? Chap making under 3k a month? Slum dweller? Footpath dweller? Rickshaw driver? What about me? Am I a common man?
Which of those would you want the media to ‘fight for’? The one man with the lowest income of the lot? All of the people below a certain income level? Everybody on earth?
I have a problem with lazy statements like that. Even if the statement is sincere, you cant ‘fight for’ everyone, unless you have infinite time, energy and media space. And what’s worse, if you attempt ‘fighting for’ everyone, you end up making a difference to no one.
The reason why people say pointless things, perhaps, is that they have nothing to say.
Remember the first day 'orientation address' in your engineering college? Common man is almost like our world class engineers.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, common man, who? Well said. (in a few words, unlike our media, one might say)
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