Howard was doing great as a manager of a team of young professionals. Looking at his performance, the management decided to promote him to the post of VP. Initially things looked great. After a while, things started crumbling down. He could not function as per the expectations of the higher management; he could not handle the responsibilities. In short, he was incompetent for the new position. The phenomenon which describes this is called as peter’s principle. This is usually paraphrased as "Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence". This was formulated in the book “The peter principle” authored by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull.
We have our own version of Howard, don’t we? Watch CNN-IBN every night from Monday to Thursday at 22:00. There comes the feminine version of Howard called Sagarika Ghose. The program is titled “Face the nation” after popular American news program by the same name (The name can be shortened as FTN, you can substitute the F with your favorite F-word. The program qualifies for that, I assure you.)
This lady Sagarika was happy with writing on semi-porn stuffs and advocating, urging men that it's their duty to provide orgasms to their women. But alas she came to serious journalism, just like our Howard got promoted as the VP. Journalism once had high standards and required thorough subject knowledge, analyzing skills. If you ever doubted whether the standards have fallen, you just have to look at the purported journos like Sagarika, all your doubts will be removed at once. It becomes amply clear that the standard that journos used to have, has taken a severe beating. It just takes some stammering in English and some amount of glamor to be called a journo these days.
As far as I remember, the first ever article I read of SG was on caste system and how Purusha Sukta supports it. If you’ve taken trouble of reading that article, you’d arrive at this -What is SG’s problem? - Caste system. What’s her solution? Re-write Purusha Sukta. Splendid, isn't it!?. By the by, who is her authority? - Some Dalit writers in general, Kancha Iliah in particular. This is the man who harbors visceral hatred all that is Hindu and is a racist par excellence. This is the man who is frequently invited as an ‘expert’ on Hinduism on her show. Inviting Kancha Iliah to speak about Hinduism as an authority is akin to inviting Hitler to talk about Judaism (In terms of intense hatred they harbor – If you have followed the man, his activities and his writings, I think you would concur with me). Coming to the article – The article is so vacuous, has logical and factual holes so huge that you can drive your car through it. So, the less said about the article, the better it is.
This is the story of just one of her articles that I happen to distinctly remember. She has many such articles and shows in her repertoire that would insult your intelligence and militate against facts and reasoning. This is what made Ram Jethmalani to call her a chit of a girl. The drubbing she got from Jethmalani is an epic and should be a warning for other journos who are ignorant of the facts at hand and thrive on sensationalism. The blunders, willful deceptions and inane utterances of her and her ilk are chronicled and well lampooned in this site (or you can follow her on twitter for your daily dose of comic relief).
SG has passed through the aforementioned stage of Peter’s principle. She has risen to the level of incompetence for a long time now. In any decently run news channels, she would have been sacked long back for her stupid utterances and blunders. But the irony is that she is the deputy editor of a ‘reputed’ channel where her hubby is the editor. Media which is supposed to be one of the watch-dogs of democracy has fallen victim to a thing which severely compromises the principles of democracy – nepotism. The irony just died a million times over.
We have our own version of Howard, don’t we? Watch CNN-IBN every night from Monday to Thursday at 22:00. There comes the feminine version of Howard called Sagarika Ghose. The program is titled “Face the nation” after popular American news program by the same name (The name can be shortened as FTN, you can substitute the F with your favorite F-word. The program qualifies for that, I assure you.)
This lady Sagarika was happy with writing on semi-porn stuffs and advocating, urging men that it's their duty to provide orgasms to their women. But alas she came to serious journalism, just like our Howard got promoted as the VP. Journalism once had high standards and required thorough subject knowledge, analyzing skills. If you ever doubted whether the standards have fallen, you just have to look at the purported journos like Sagarika, all your doubts will be removed at once. It becomes amply clear that the standard that journos used to have, has taken a severe beating. It just takes some stammering in English and some amount of glamor to be called a journo these days.
As far as I remember, the first ever article I read of SG was on caste system and how Purusha Sukta supports it. If you’ve taken trouble of reading that article, you’d arrive at this -What is SG’s problem? - Caste system. What’s her solution? Re-write Purusha Sukta. Splendid, isn't it!?. By the by, who is her authority? - Some Dalit writers in general, Kancha Iliah in particular. This is the man who harbors visceral hatred all that is Hindu and is a racist par excellence. This is the man who is frequently invited as an ‘expert’ on Hinduism on her show. Inviting Kancha Iliah to speak about Hinduism as an authority is akin to inviting Hitler to talk about Judaism (In terms of intense hatred they harbor – If you have followed the man, his activities and his writings, I think you would concur with me). Coming to the article – The article is so vacuous, has logical and factual holes so huge that you can drive your car through it. So, the less said about the article, the better it is.
This is the story of just one of her articles that I happen to distinctly remember. She has many such articles and shows in her repertoire that would insult your intelligence and militate against facts and reasoning. This is what made Ram Jethmalani to call her a chit of a girl. The drubbing she got from Jethmalani is an epic and should be a warning for other journos who are ignorant of the facts at hand and thrive on sensationalism. The blunders, willful deceptions and inane utterances of her and her ilk are chronicled and well lampooned in this site (or you can follow her on twitter for your daily dose of comic relief).
SG has passed through the aforementioned stage of Peter’s principle. She has risen to the level of incompetence for a long time now. In any decently run news channels, she would have been sacked long back for her stupid utterances and blunders. But the irony is that she is the deputy editor of a ‘reputed’ channel where her hubby is the editor. Media which is supposed to be one of the watch-dogs of democracy has fallen victim to a thing which severely compromises the principles of democracy – nepotism. The irony just died a million times over.
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