Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern and three times is a habit. This saying applies well to the Andhra Pradesh Opposition Leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy owned newspaper Sakshi. It has become a tradition for the daily to publish front page articles based on the points raised by social media spammers. The media house has time and again proved that, regardless of the facts it will only hear, what it wants to hear and write what it wants to write.
Ace Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth defeated World and Olympic Champion Chen Long to win Australian Open Super Series last week. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday facilitated the badminton player and speaking on the occasion advised the children to practice and win laurels in Olympics. He expressed his desire to magnificently facilitate anyone who wins a gold medal in Olympics. Likewise, he recalled his announcement at Tirupati Science Congress, of giving 100 crore rupees prize money to the Nobel Prize winners in science.
It’s high time for Sakshi to become more informed than just being prejudiced. It reported the modified version of the Chief Minister’s speech as a banner headline in first page. The newspaper minced Chandrababu’s words by publishing, “Win in Olympics and I will confer Nobel prize”. TDP supremo paused in his speech when recalling about the Nobel prize announcement and he is grammatically correct. It is these predetermined choices by the reporters that are further denting the image of the media house. Sakshi must make a habit of fact checking before partaking and if they don’t have time, then it is better they avoid sharing fake news.
Here is the 5 months old video in which Chandrababu announced 100 crore for Nobel Prize winner in Tirupati Science congress : ( Yesterday , In vijayawada , he referred back to this 100 Crore Nobel prize announcement, and also announced another 100 Crore for Olympic winner – if any )
https://youtu.be/cGuulcdIc-8
