{"id":569,"date":"2006-08-13T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=569"},"modified":"2006-08-13T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:45:04","slug":"the-sanitization-of-rahul-mahajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2006\/08\/13\/the-sanitization-of-rahul-mahajan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sanitization of Rahul Mahajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of [tag]Rahul Mahajan[\/tag].  For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father&#8217;s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in hospital OD&#8217;ing on some narcotic or the other, and in whose party someone lost their life &#8211; Rahul Mahajan seems to be treated not as someone who fucked up beyond measure but as a poor lost boy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Financial Express tells us that Rahul Mahajan is off to Seychelles on his honeymoon &#8211; the FE not page 3 of the ToI.  The Bombay Times shows us Rahul Mahajan getting a Rakhi tied on his hand by his sister  The BT today carries an interview on Rahul, his life and his take on his uncle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any where else in the world, the media does not make excuses for people charged of crimes. While there are many who will argue that drugs should not be banned &#8211; and it is a view that i don&#8217;t disagree with &#8211; for now narcotics is illegal. Lobby to change the law, instead of making a law breaker into a role model.  The same happened with Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Fardeen Khan, Sunjay Dutt, Salman Khan &#8211; the message that the [tag]Indian media[\/tag] is putting out is so long as  you are attractive and glamourous, it is ok for you to break the law, and even be caught breaking it. And oh don&#8217;t worry, if you break the law and are caught, for the right amount we will set about whitewashing your image.  I hope that media houses are getting paid and paid well for this kind of a whitewash job. I would hate to think that journalists and editors were abandoning the basic principals of good &amp; responsible journalism for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of [tag]Rahul Mahajan[\/tag]. 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