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Permalink Reply by Ragini Bhatiya on February 27, 2012 at 4:05pm

It was a political statement made by Katju. 

http://www.youbihar.com/forum/topics/no-press-freedom-bihar-says-pr...

Permalink Reply by Sangeet Jha on February 27, 2012 at 5:34pm

Justice Katju knows how to make news. Any publicity is a good publicity for him. Where is the the evidence?. 

Permalink Reply by Munna Lal on February 27, 2012 at 11:20pm

By this episode of Justice Katju, do I feel sad ? Or do I feel disgusted ? Or even sorry. I don't feel any of these. I feel really worried. Our polititicians took care of our education system in Bihar that led to the churning out of half educated Biharis. These people are easy to govern, ready to be brainwashed at the drop of the hat. They become gullible too.
And that is exactly what is happening in the aftermath of Justice Katju affair. Our Bihari people are not exposed to true newspapers. They do not watch credible 24/7 news channel Therefore they have no idea what a free press and freedom of expression means. As such, they should be forgiven or posting comments questioning Justice Katju. These idiots, therefore,  unsurprisingly fail to see that the very behavior of B.N. College Principal, whose wife is a ruling party MLA, was intolerance to free speech. I know what freedom of expression is, having lived and studied for my MA degree at Brown University in New York., a few months in UK and Germany. For a year I worked in Dubai, saw Bahrain, Kuwait. Now on business trip I see SE Asia. Of all people I am in better position to say. No, we do not have freedom of expression as compared to real democracies.
Coming to Bihar and its news media. Anyone with little intelligence will say after looking at newspaper and TV media that they are all sycophantic. See the am mount of government advertisements. See the larger adverts bearing photo of Nitish, Modi and a minister or two praising someone or themselves. Who pays ?  And why ? What purpose it serve ? Who benefit from these advertisements ?
I have been lucky in my education and stint abroad. So I am able to understand. That is why I only live a few days in my beloved Khagaul every month. But I don't buy papers, I don't watch TV

 

Munna Lal Kedia

MA, MA, MBA

Permalink Reply by Rohini on February 28, 2012 at 1:42am

This man is ranting as if he has extra ordinary constitutional status by being chief of press council. 

Munna Lal said:

By this episode of Justice Katju, do I feel sad ? Or do I feel disgusted ? Or even sorry. I don't feel any of these. I feel really worried. Our polititicians took care of our education system in Bihar that led to the churning out of half educated Biharis. These people are easy to govern, ready to be brainwashed at the drop of the hat. They become gullible too.
And that is exactly what is happening in the aftermath of Justice Katju affair. Our Bihari people are not exposed to true newspapers. They do not watch credible 24/7 news channel Therefore they have no idea what a free press and freedom of expression means. As such, they should be forgiven or posting comments questioning Justice Katju. These idiots, therefore,  unsurprisingly fail to see that the very behavior of B.N. College Principal, whose wife is a ruling party MLA, was intolerance to free speech. I know what freedom of expression is, having lived and studied for my MA degree at Brown University in New York., a few months in UK and Germany. For a year I worked in Dubai, saw Bahrain, Kuwait. Now on business trip I see SE Asia. Of all people I am in better position to say. No, we do not have freedom of expression as compared to real democracies.
Coming to Bihar and its news media. Anyone with little intelligence will say after looking at newspaper and TV media that they are all sycophantic. See the am mount of government advertisements. See the larger adverts bearing photo of Nitish, Modi and a minister or two praising someone or themselves. Who pays ?  And why ? What purpose it serve ? Who benefit from these advertisements ?
I have been lucky in my education and stint abroad. So I am able to understand. That is why I only live a few days in my beloved Khagaul every month. But I don't buy papers, I don't watch TV

 

Munna Lal Kedia

MA, MA, MBA

Permalink Reply by Ram Prakash on February 28, 2012 at 6:20pm

He is right, have to pay the press to get news printed.

Permalink Reply by Rachna Gupta on February 28, 2012 at 8:37pm

Why do Indian people fight among themselves? I see more of this on this site.

Life is too short.

make love, not war.

Permalink Reply by Rajan Tiwari on February 28, 2012 at 9:13pm

What about his own censoring of media when he wanted the electronic media to show better than what they are showing and dictating the terms and conditions for their programmes. He mentioned about the "transitional phase" through which the country is passing. Same is the case with Bihar. The state is passing through a phase where country needs to know the best things happening in Bihar and not the 15 years of misrule and mismanagement which has given Bihar and Bihari an identiy of being corrupt and poor. Those 15 years has created the level of corruption and poverty because of which certain anti-social and corrupt people still take their all wrong activities for granted and by giving publicity to them we will make the people of Bihar insecure everywhere in country.