Violence of threatening the Media Personnel : How it disappeared and resurfaced

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Violence of threatening the Media Personnel : How it disappeared and resurfaced

It is nothing very serious that any journalist receives a THREAT or either being slained or being KILLED. It is NOTHING very surprising to know that the journalists are beaten RED-AND-BLUE by the people who are scared of them. It is not at all shocking to see the journalist being killed by the anti-social animals here on this earth.

The killing and IMPAIRING the Journalist have been going since the ages and it will be that the age that is coming will see more of it however the world of Journalism now will have to stand UNITED to fight for their well being and to see to that they are free enough and do have the free space to vent their opinions and give the world a FREE message that would be useful to all.
It  is very mandatory to have a BALANCED and an PROBICAL Journalism rather than airing the news which are full of fallacies.

Pic :; Mr Sudhir Choudhury , Mr Donald trump and Mr Narendra Modi
The case of Mr Sudhir Choudhury getting so many a death threats could be either SERIOUS or it could be that these are NOT to be taken in a very serious manner. This could be and I would like to analyse them in a sincere manner at the end of this article but let me now get back to the history of the Journalists getting slained.
The “ ORIGIN” of Journalist getting “Thrashed-and-Threats ”
It always starts in a country where the populous is huge and where there is a complete freedom by it’s people to act and react to the situation which first makes them  uneasy and then it makes them to create a situation which could be termed as a death trap.  The USA is one place where ANYTHING-AND-EVERYTHING is possible. Impossible it seems does not finds a place in the annals of the USA and it’s citizen.
A man recently called The Boston Globe and threatened “to shoot you [expletives] in the head … shoot every [expletive] one of you.” Apparently, the Globe’s defense of quality journalism infuriated him.  Over the years the CNN has earned flacks and the stings of the President of the United States of America. He on many an occasion has said them and it’s reporter bluntly – YOU ARE A BLANK HEADED JOURNALIST.
At CNN,  over the years the anchors  of CNN, report “ an uptick in death ” threats and, most tragically of all, there was the shooting of five employees in the office of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28.
Many an attribute has been the reason for the Journalist getting many death threat calls, and there are of course many such as  mental illness, isolation, easy access to weaponry, a renewed white supremacy movement and other variables clearly  amongst the those who threaten the journalists contribute to the increase in both violent rhetoric and actual violence.
But what these occurrences share, and what they’re illustrating, is a profound hatred towards purveyors of journalism.
Receiving Death Threat Calls :: A Ploy Or A Mental Shackle
Nothing suffices as sufficient SELF-GLOATING. It is said that some gloaters who just want to threaten the others knowing fully well that their GLOATS are related and linked to their death  at times shake the democracy by gloating great about themselves but in actuals are scared and relatively very SCARED about their own end. To ease off the international and the national criminal pressures from them they GLOAT and BOAST about killing and massacring the others and some of the Journalists are hand-picked-and-slelected to receive the death threat. The case of Mr Sudhir Choudhury is one of the same.
Indian Journalist : Fishes in the Lakes staying with the “ Snakes ”
This isn’t news. Violent acts against the media are as old as our nation. Perhaps Americans are just not accustomed to seeing the violence because most of them grew up in the second half of the 20th century, an era largely devoid of the partisan rancor that was once a hallmark of American journalism – and which seems to have returned. However the Indian journalist ever since it was under the British rule has always received threat , from th Britishers when they ruled and now when India rules itself. Nothing so new and NOTHING so GLORIOUS about the  “ FISH” in the pot . It is same as being fishes staying with the snakes and yet surviving in the ponds with the snakes
Ugly history :: Incidents are “ SIMILIES ”
As media historian John Nerone writes, attacks on the media occur regularly throughout our history. Take the history of America, India or any other countries, the cascades remains the same. The other countries are also not very different when treating the Journalist . They are considered to be the “ ENEMIES” of those who believe in                “ FANATISM ” . Never have been the journalists the apple nor have they been considered as a plum or a pea. They are NUTS to be cracked to be the AFTER or the SIDE-EATS with the drinks and most of them have been used in that manner that rules the nation in the under-privileged countries or the countries which could be termed  as “ ad- developed” . The Journalist and the media has always been termed as ADS for ther ruling party .The classic examples of it has been the NDTV  and the CNN-IBN of the Pronnoy Roy legacy and the Rajdeep Sardesia history. That is all.
Exmaples of the World-Famous Journalists at the receiving end.
James Rivington, an 18th-century loyalist printer in New York City, barely escaped being tarred and feathered by the Sons of Liberty, who ransacked his home.
In the 19th century, attacks on the press were common. Violence and journalism were intertwined in American culture, largely because of the partisan politics most newspapers propagated.
Abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in Alton, Illinois, in 1837. A pro-slavery mob broke into his jail cell – where he had been placed for his protection – and lynched him. One year earlier, in New York City, The New York Herald’s James Gordon Bennett was savagely beaten by his rival, James Watson Webb. Webb edited New York City’s best-selling newspaper, The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer, and he’d grown tired of Bennett’s attacks in his popular newspaper column.
When Ida B. Wells-Barnett published anti-lynching reports in Memphis in 1892, a white mob destroyed her press and threatened to kill her.
Lovejoy and Wells-Barnett are remembered because they would later be recognized as civil rights pioneers. But the violent confrontation between two of New York City’s most prominent newspaper editors is less well-known, in part, because it occurred at a time when violence against the press wasn’t uncommon.
Early Days : Crashing Start , Demeaning Ends’ Mush And Milk Journalism
In the early days of the Republic,  and in the early times when the first English newspaper in India the TIMES OF INDIA was published the Indian and the U.S. newspapers were not only observably partisan, they were subsidized by political parties. There is no clear history and any proof of the Indian newspaper being afforded that clemency and the patronage but they say it. I do not have any proof of it but I have my doubt about the Indian newspaper TIMES getting that BLESSING from the RUSTICS’ and the Britishers   However and because newspapers around the U.S. often represented specific political parties, news reports would be politically framed and competing outlets – often serving the rival political party – would be demeaned.
Countless local editors, like Bennett, were attacked. Some, like Lovejoy, were killed for their work. These attacks on journalists were so common that Mark Twain, who worked as a journalist, lampooned them in his classic short story “Journalism in Tennessee.”
In India there was some and at times there were many similiarities that was observed when Mr Rusi Karanjia wrote and it resembled to Twain’s satire about press violence which narrates and tells the story of a young editor reporting to the office of The Morning Glory and Johnson County War-Whoop for his first day of work. When he turns in a brief roundup of local news reported by other outlets, his boss is surprised.
“Thunder and lightning!” he says. “Do you suppose my subscribers are going to stand such gruel as that? Give me the pen!”
The chief editor of “ BLITZ ”  a NATIONAL WEEKLY then in the sixties and the seventies to the eighties, Mr Karanjia  rewrites the piece, insulting and threatening the editors of the rival newspapers who were against him and were propelling the others who were saddled in the power then to go for his head. . Calling them scoundrels and liars, he excoriates them for “dissemination of falsehood, calumny, vituperation, and vulgarity.”
“Now that is the way to write,”  the BOSS Mr Karanjia his boss who ran the BLITZ  says upon completion of the piece. “Peppery and to the point. Mush-and-milk journalism gives me the fan-tods.”
The ‘News From Nowhere’
“Mush-and-milk journalism” that outraged Twain’s fictitious newspaper editor is inoffensive, neutral and seemingly objective. The same MUSH-AND-MILK have outraged the Editor-In-Chief of the Zee News Mr Chaudhury threatening him of the dire consequence.
It’s that kind of centrist journalism that developed in the 20th century and which is now running even in the 21^st century , – what journalist and political scientist Edward Jay Epstein called “News From Nowhere” — that many of us grew up on.
The evolution of technology, commercial imperatives and new modes of distribution combined to create American journalism’s era of objectivity. But unfortunately it has made the India Journalism as the OBJECT OF OBSTENITY
Selling newspapers to millions in mass audiences, and transmitting identical reports to newspapers around the U.S. via the telegraph, both required neutering any clearly biased news reporting. They did it and they might have done that but NEVER in INDIA. The Indian Journalism was always centered around the NEGATIVE that the Congress and the N-G family did to put it into HIGHLY POSITIVE WITH IMPERATIVE ELEMENTS being added to it.
Zee News and it’s team are threatened not because of any other reason but because of the fact that this News Channel has UPROOTED the NEGAVISM and PAUSICM of the old rhetorics of smell-decayed-journalism and has brought and infused the LIFE of POLLINATION completely wiping off the POLLUTION that existed in journalism. This had and this has taken away the DRINKS with the SODA added and the chicks and the FLESH served with the to completely overhaul the “ CHIC ” that the DIRTY- LOPSIDED-  JOURNALISM that prevailed at India.
The NATIONAL ESSENCE was the flavor served and that made the EATERIES swarmed with PIE and the CENTS being served more and used more than the SHILLINGS and that is where the THROATS  started whopping and bobbling .We see and hear the URDU’S and the PUNJABIS doing that more on the whattsapp and the U Tube more. This will NOT create any FURORE for a very LONG TIME.
Regulatory mandates like the public interest standard and the Fairness Doctrine followed the development of radio and television. They further enshrined a “just-the-facts” sensibility in American journalism.
From our vantage point as historians in 2018, we can now see this era of objectivity lasted from about 1930 to 2000, beginning with the introduction of broadcast journalism via radio to the emergence of the multichannel cable television universe and the web’s development.
In those decades, journalism became less partisan to be more palatable to mass audiences. Every weeknight, CBS broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite soberly told Americans what they needed to know about the events of the day. This was the trend that was carried out and that is still being carried out by the REPUBLIC and the ZEE TV nothing different. However one finds that the TWO Editor-In-Chief are being targeted.

Pic :: Mr Arnab Goswami
And, in this original network era, opinion was separated from reporting and clearly labeled – whether it was on-air commentaries delivered by Eric Sevareid or on specially designated “editorial” or “opinion” pages in newspapers. This is what we did see in the Zee TV doing it everyday.
Such segregation of reporting and opinion was not the norm in American journalism history. It was a new idea that quickly gained traction because it proved so commercially advantageous. Ditto and very correct in the case of the Zee News and Republic TV.
Creating audiences in the millions, and then the tens of millions – on television – generated unimagined sums of advertising revenue. Removing opinions from most reporting produced enormous profits for television networks, radio stations and daily newspapers. It became commonplace. Americans grew accustomed to it. Not to blame anybody the Indian in large followed that except Zee TV and the Republic of the Arnab’s fame.
It might be impossible to return to the more civil, professional and respectful era of journalism that many Americans grew up in. But we can, and should, recognize the historic futility of killing the messenger.
Destroying Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s press did nothing to stop the anti-lynching movement, and the murder of Elijah Lovejoy spread the abolitionist message much further than Lovejoy himself ever could.
That is something THOSE who are BLANK-HEADED KILLERS will not understand. After all – “ EDUCATION ” as a matter of fact is a FORTE and NOT  a FORT .
Those who never have been in the FORTE , will NEVER know what is FORT.
Regards

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .