Media: The Second Government!

Media can be categorized as the second government. It can popularize or defame anything big in any country. When media information is based on facts and truth, it can even be more than a government influencing people and changing situations.

The bad news is that most media in any country are serving as pressure group magnifying their government’s performance on minor things. These media disseminate information from top to down instead of bottom up (i.e. from people to government) so that governments can take corrective actions. This is what makes local media less than a second government. What is the use of disseminating information from top to bottom? This has, of course, relevance but not as much as information from bottom to up.

But there are also international media like BBC, CNN, etc, their information of which is trustworthy, their reporters bold enough to dig facts and expose realities and, therefore, highly influential to make a difference, say for example, in influencing for change of a wrong government policy, undemocratic governance, etc through their fact-based information. Such media can be categorized as second government with international respect.

However, it does not mean that all international media are totally acceptable. These media, although better than local media, are also chasing information from VIP people. They do not give value to the voice of ordinary people (the bottom of the pyramid). They are also highly focused on minor issues of advanced countries than major issue in poor or underdeveloped countries. This must be changed. Media need to stand for people than for governments and VIP people only. NowPublic is the best giving a chance to ordinary people to breath, at least!