“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power; because they control the minds of the masses.” – Malcolm X.
There’s hard proof in the form of research experiments to show that people indeed are profoundly impacted by exposure to repeat telecast of a particular news item, and views expressed - both explicit and implicit. This preciesely seems to be the Congress I's 2014 political astra before they unleash anything else more potent on us.
Yesterday's twist to Modi's Puppy analogy was intended to do just this. With no way to rig the polls considering that this time around the electronic ballot will be with all the "rides" Swami claims, and knowing well how low they have sunk in terms of peoples' perception regarding them, this appears to be a subtle yet virile malevolent campaign, with full-hearted support of the paid media.
