Media tyranny

Tyrants? Haven't heard that word in a long time, have we? Just to jog your memory, the Merriam-Webster definitions of the word are:
1 a : an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution b : a usurper of sovereignty
2 a : a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally b : one resembling an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power

NOW you must be wondering why we don't use this word more often these days! In the last few years the tyranny has been absolute in some countries (North Korea, Turkmenistan, China), benevolent in some and hidden in the rest......

But tyranny is not always in a political form in the so-called democracies of the world. There can be regional tyranny (US, Israel, Australia, North Korea), bureaucratic tyranny (found in most commonwealth countries), media tyranny (BBC, FOX), tax tyranny (eg. in Scandinavian countries) and, ofcourse, tyranny of terror...... (BTW tyranny and terror have different etymologies)

Media tyranny??? A few days back there was an article on the BBC website 'warning' bloggers that BBC reads all comments written about it in cyberspace...... Get the idea? The media giant is a far cry from what it used to be a couple of decades back, steadily moving away from plain honest reporting to something of putting its opinions in its articles such that it sounds like a fact. Take for example an article from today. The reporter is comparing China and India and also mentions that he has ".......spent the last eight years living in Beijing, and only four days in Delhi, so comparisons are difficult....." But that doesn't stop him from completely blasting everything he sees in India. First he stays at some shitty hotel in Delhi and then spends a few paragraphs writing about it...... serves him right. Any idiot would live in a good hotel if going to a new country if he/she has the money (And PLEASE don't say that he didn't have much dough!)........ What did he expect? Then he talks about the airport....... What has he really compared? Streets of two major cities, airports? I am sure this reporter would fall in love with Pyongyang if his reporting skills are soooo limited. Talk about objective journalism. Mark Tully was a BBC reporter, he remained objective until he fell in love with India. I wouldn't call him objective anymore (wrt India), but then he isn't with BBC anymore!