The following e mail and the lack of response it got should tell us what kind of shady, ill-informed, dangerous, incompetent nincompoops work for organizations like CNN IBN - and how the government confers awards upon them for staying that way!
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From: BSK
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Subject: Wrong mention of "National Language".
To: editor@ibnlive.com
Madam/Sir,
It is really disheartening to see a TV channel of your standing allowing such a poor standard of content editing in your telecast.
I was watching a program titled Y NOT just a short while ago on CNN-IBN, and the host made a singular reference to Hindi as the National Language in her conversation with some Mumbaikars who would like to see more Marathi being used in Maharashtra. I am even more amazed that this was not disputed on the spot! It seems that abject arrogance rules your roost and abject ignorance rules amongst the people who subscribe to your channel. Please listen to the lie you broadcast more than once.
http://www.flyerhigher.com/bsk777/YNOT/rashtrabhashalie.wav
In case you or your staff members have been ignorant, or hoodwinked into believing that India has a "National Language", you should really try and learn the facts - India doesn't have a National Language. Even if you have the opinion that it should, you should certainly not allow it to be mentioned like it is a fact. Even the most brazen embrace of mediocrity shouldn't allow for such blunders to go unchecked.
If your channel assumes the "right" to show such a dangerous level of disrespect towards India's Constitution, you really should be put out of action by a public interest litigation. This is indeed my opinion, but I'd like to know first hand from you, if you would choose to tell me, whether:
1. CNN-IBN has a vested interest in pushing Hindi to be christened a National Language.
2. That is the reason there has been no editorial outrage from your channel when people like Ram Vilas Paswan openly insult the Constitution by mentioning Hindi as the national language.
3. That is the reason you have made no attempt to bring to light the gravity of the linguistic imperialism that is being unleashed by the central government of India and Hindi supporters within its mechanism.
4. You are simply too incompetent to take up the depth of this issue and that the establishment of a "Hindi Diwas" means nothing of importance to you.
5. You simply don't care since advertising revenues can keep your enterprise in profit through mediocrity infested programming.
The debate has indeed shifted, if you notice, from whether we should have a unifying language or not, to whether some of us even understand the sanctity of the Constitution. You have, if you care, a goldmine of a topic to examine a lot of items that are important to India and Indians.
Where does CNN IBN collectively stand on the above?
I would much appreciate your response, and please don't hesitate to surprise me with the quality of the same.
Thank you,
BSK.
(The Padma Shri recipient is no less than the Editor in Chief of CNN IBN!
http://www.medianewsline.com/news/131/ARTICLE/2034/2008-01-27.html)
From: BSK
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Subject: Wrong mention of "National Language".
To: editor@ibnlive.com
Madam/Sir,
It is really disheartening to see a TV channel of your standing allowing such a poor standard of content editing in your telecast.
I was watching a program titled Y NOT just a short while ago on CNN-IBN, and the host made a singular reference to Hindi as the National Language in her conversation with some Mumbaikars who would like to see more Marathi being used in Maharashtra. I am even more amazed that this was not disputed on the spot! It seems that abject arrogance rules your roost and abject ignorance rules amongst the people who subscribe to your channel. Please listen to the lie you broadcast more than once.
http://www.flyerhigher.com/bsk777/YNOT/rashtrabhashalie.wav
In case you or your staff members have been ignorant, or hoodwinked into believing that India has a "National Language", you should really try and learn the facts - India doesn't have a National Language. Even if you have the opinion that it should, you should certainly not allow it to be mentioned like it is a fact. Even the most brazen embrace of mediocrity shouldn't allow for such blunders to go unchecked.
If your channel assumes the "right" to show such a dangerous level of disrespect towards India's Constitution, you really should be put out of action by a public interest litigation. This is indeed my opinion, but I'd like to know first hand from you, if you would choose to tell me, whether:
1. CNN-IBN has a vested interest in pushing Hindi to be christened a National Language.
2. That is the reason there has been no editorial outrage from your channel when people like Ram Vilas Paswan openly insult the Constitution by mentioning Hindi as the national language.
3. That is the reason you have made no attempt to bring to light the gravity of the linguistic imperialism that is being unleashed by the central government of India and Hindi supporters within its mechanism.
4. You are simply too incompetent to take up the depth of this issue and that the establishment of a "Hindi Diwas" means nothing of importance to you.
5. You simply don't care since advertising revenues can keep your enterprise in profit through mediocrity infested programming.
The debate has indeed shifted, if you notice, from whether we should have a unifying language or not, to whether some of us even understand the sanctity of the Constitution. You have, if you care, a goldmine of a topic to examine a lot of items that are important to India and Indians.
Where does CNN IBN collectively stand on the above?
I would much appreciate your response, and please don't hesitate to surprise me with the quality of the same.
Thank you,
BSK.
(The Padma Shri recipient is no less than the Editor in Chief of CNN IBN!
http://www.medianewsline.com/news/131/ARTICLE/2034/2008-01-27.html)
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