How media promotes religious blind beliefs and harms humanity

How media promotes religious blind beliefs and harms humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIkybfFn5q0&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

One of my biggest grudge against media has always been that they promote religion. The prime responsibility of media is to promote truth and rationale. And there isn't anything that's steeped inside more lies, fraud and falsehood than God and Religion. But unfortunately, they are always not just writing on it, but promoting all it's blind beliefs and fraud. And why wouldn't they. After all, peddling religion means money. So they would rather peddle Dhanteras, Lakshmi Puja, Karva Chauth, Santa Claus and all its related blind beliefs and make great moneys from the advertisers that write articles educating the public to stay away from such blind beliefs and medieval practices. Educating people to stay from such outright exploitative and demeaning festivals like Karva Chauth would mean a huge loss of business for jewellery stores, saree stores etc etc and thus huge loss of ad revenues for media houses.

While this is something I always knew, it really feels sad that we hardly have a media house in this country that wouldn't even shy away from taking moneys not just for ads that promote blind beliefs but to promote religion in a manner that would end up further polarizing this country in religious lines.

Yes, you guessed it right. I am referring to the cobrapost stings.

If the first part of cobrapost sting - https://www.cobrapost.com/blog/Operation-136:-Part-1/1009 - had Hindi Khabar, SAB TV, DNA, Amar Ujala, UNI, 9X Tashan, Samachar Plus, HNN 24*7, Punjab Kesari, Swatantra Bharat, ScoopWhoop, Rediff.com,Dainik Jagran, IndiaWatch, Aj and Sadhna Prime News showing their willingness to use religion to polarize this nation on behalf of a party with saffron hue against payment of moneys; the second part of cobrapost sting - http://cobrapost.com/.../Press-Release-Operation-136.../1063 - had even bigger names.

In their own words : In the second part of Operation 136, Cobrapost has exposed owners and high-ranking personnel of more than two dozen media houses, both mainstream and regional, the biggest ones and the smaller ones, the oldest ones and the newer ones. ‘Operation 136: Part II,’ in fact, shows Indian media’s underbelly in its most visceral form, where even the “big daddies” do not mind agreeing to undertake a campaign that has the potential to not only cause communal disharmony among citizens but also tilt the electoral outcome in favour of a particular party. This they will do if they are paid the right price, and sometimes they have no compunctions to quote a price as high as Rs. 1000 crore, as did the Times Group owner Vineet Jain, while others showed a propensity to indulge in any kind of illegality bordering on criminality. The media houses agreeing to run the campaign are Times of India, India Today, Hindustan Times,, Network 18, Paytm, Bharat Samachar, Suvarna, Bartman, Dainik Samvad, Star India, ABP News, Dainik Jagaran, Radio One, Red FM, Lokmat, ABN Andhra Jyothy, TV5, Dinamalar, Big FM, K News, India Voice, MVTV and Open magazine.

》》》》》》Here is small portion of my TEDx talk where I had referred to the nexus between media and Religion and how instead of spreading rationale they spread blind beliefs.《《《《《《《

For my complete talk click here

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