[icernet] Media as Big Brother

[Arul Selvan]

Government and Opposition are indistinguishable, so naturally it is up 
to the media to play the role of expose, interlocutor, and cop.
 What, 
pray tell, is so natural about a completely monopolistic and 
profit-driven cartel playing the role of judge, jury and executioner in 
society? Notice, in addition to all three branches of government, the 
most Machiavellian of governmental functions, that which embodies the 
states monopoly on violence, the police, is slipped into the list of 
roles the media must play, completing its new avatar of Leviathan/Big 
Brother.


Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=16532