Comments on News Articles in Indian News Papers

       Indian media has long been flaunting their logos containing a freedom fire to a tiger. As a kid growing in Indian school system, I was taught that journalism is about being neutral to a news and enjoy the right of freedom of speech.
     Then came the time, where political parties started coming out with their own news papers, which is nothing more than a platform to shout about their propaganda from the top of the roof. It is long been suspected that although not endorsed by any major news papers openly, the politicians/government controls the media. They do control the matter in the media to a large extent.
Now . They went a step ahead like all the western countries to allow the readers to post their comments ........... that is where the freedom of speech was lost. If you try to post some comment on some news article, you will get a message that "Your comment is queued in for moderator review and then it will be published." Is that what we have all come down to? The comments section, of a news paper is not a reflection of the news paper's editor. People are free to have their opinions and express them. I completely understand the need to moderation check especially for slang language. But that can be achieved by adding a software filter while posting the message itself. Are we saying that

1. India, the largest supplier of software engineers do not know how to do it?
2. News Paper moderators, who are generally literature/language majors; are incapable of coming out with a list of words to be banned from the post and incorporating them with the screening software.

 This moderation is a sleazy way for the news paper editors to maintain a clean image in Political arena and may be have their office broken by the political party hurt by comments :).
This is not journalism my friends, this is a circus show for entertainment. Ring master in circus decides and directs what kind of cycle and elephant rides, or what does the Tiger jump through. Here News Paper decides, how much news to be exposed, whom to cover and guess what there is a bonus, get free interesting comments from the people and then decide which help them get good publicity rating and publish only them.
   
        Yeh dil hai mushkil kuch kehna yahan! Zara bachke, sambhalke, yeh hai media meri Jaan!