It seems
that our Members of Parliament and especially one from the acting community
can’t handle radio humour. They really can’t tolerate the filthy jokes and
mimicry of radio jockeys that they so blatantly broadcast to the people of the
country. They want the respect they think they deserve just by sitting within
the annals of power, in the capital of the country.
It was
actually hilarious to see the honourable member beg the government to do
something about the abominable jokes cracked by media persons about her
honourable colleagues and her honourable self of the honourable house. Oh, and
as usual, other honourable members who hadn't received any honourable mention
for some time jumped onto the honourable bandwagon and gave their honourable
comments to the dishonourable media who are always poking fun at them. How
honourable indeed!
It is very
curious, this case of the member of the house feeling bad about all the jokes
and tomfoolery that is produced at the cost of the house because she this begs
the question of whether she is ever present in the house to see the antics of
the chosen ones and if she is present, if she remains awake long enough to see
the kind of things the people watching the Lok Sabha channel have to put up
with.
I wonder
how RJs and other ‘media people’ are supposed to describe what happens in the
house except for mimicking the members. The people obviously can’t see the RJs
over the radio so they can’t watch them enjoying a porn clip on their phone or
wave bundles of money or throw microphones or climb on the speaker’s desk, so
they have to content themselves by listening to them poke fun at the honourable
MPs through sound. Oh, oh I forgot, they can’t even see the RJs pepper spraying
the shit out of each other with ‘Rang barse, bheege chunarwaali, rang barse’
playing on the mixer.
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The media
has the right to portray whatever it likes as long as it is not defamation. If the
media cannot show the people what need to be shown or what the people want to
see and hear, then the very existence of the media is for naught. The media
recently also came under fire in Uganda for showing the President of the
country among other members of Parliament sleeping mid-session.
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