Sunday, December 11, 2011

Democracy by Media Management

Madeleine Albright  is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. The world knows her by that distinction. Then there is another distinction that belongs to her. There is an American TN news run on CBS called 60 Minutes. The interviewer on that programme asked her that the number of kids killed in Iraq more than the people killed in Hiroshima-is it worth it? She replied that though the choice is difficult but the price is worth it. The rub comes later on. She said that the question by the interviewer was loaded one. With a diplomatic stoke she shifted the attention from her responsibility to a news reporter Leslie Stahl. This is the rub. You can do whatever you wish as long as you can manage the media.