PRESS DAY- NOVEMBER 16

Guwahati 15 November,2008
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Press is playing pro-active role in bringing changes in civilizational values.Freedom of Press is still enigmatic.The capitalist press is absolutely free so long as communism is projected as the evil in Biblical terms.Now, the same press is advancing towards assaulting political Islam,not necessarily political christianity.In similar vein, the socialist freedom of press marches ahead by negating human exploitation and capitalist values as de-humanizing Saitan. However, freedom of press is the benchmark of human freedom.It has to be re-defined and standardised with human rights benchmarks.

The moment a British or a whiteman is injured or done to death, the BBC is fairly neutral to shout at the rooftop- 24 X7.Interestingly, the loss of several lives a day in Assam or Manipur or Nagaland is not worthy of BBC's attention.Reason- BBC's freedom of press is exclusively for the protection of Western interest with sympathetic extenstion rulers of her ex colonies.

The CNN paparazi during US invasion of Iraq had shown the way of American freedom of the media- denial,suppression of the facts and exaggeration of Western virtues.The imaginary WMD and the invented war in Iraq had been possible because of Western version of freedom of Press and media.

Similarly, Indian press had projected any movement in the NE region of India as mindless terrorism worthy of cruel state backlash and hence , a dozen of black laws.However, press is relatively an indispensable tool of human progression.

November 16 in the NES- Assam,Manipur and Nagaland, is significant in more than one sense. The NE press has been sandwiched between military pressures and the tactics of the insurgents, some of whom have been questioned for their legitimacy. NE press my induct Press Ombudsman in the respectable dailies.It is time to give constructive meaning to freedom and freedom to define what freedom means.

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