The awesome media

The power of the media has unfolded ever since March 2007, and is now building into a crescendo of the major channels baying for the blood of Musharraf. Over these eighteen months they have brought intense focus on the political conditions in the country now zeroing in on the president who it seems is beleaguered and is headed fast towards an ignominious departure, from the presidency, and on to that special dustbin reserved for our ex-rulers, big or small, elected or grabbers.

A private TV channel has been running a strip on its News channel, stating that they have conducted a poll asking a Yes or No as to whether Musharraf should be impeached or not. A resounding 76 percent were against his impeachment. And yet in the same programme all the guests were for the impeachment. It seems there is a strange disconnect between the 76 percent and the channels. For, where is the voice of the 76 percent, brushed aside by the panelists as insignificant.