'Foreign media technically rejoice partial win' ::::: .Artificial Intelligence ... In 2025 ... will bring in newer threats to Media and its credibility at a time when Social Media has already threatened the 'traditional print and electronic medium' !!

Traditional media focused and taught about 'reporting straight'  - the truth - as one saw like a fly-on-the-wall.

But new generation journalism is 'advocacy' .. taking a line, giving spins and in uncomfortable times - be silent.

Swapna Bapat, Managing Director and Vice President for India and the SAARC region at Palo Alto Networks, stated, “We’re expecting a 3-5x increase in AI applications over the next year or two. 

Attackers are constantly seeking weaknesses, so they are already targeting large language models (LLMs) and AI models that use machine learning to generate and understand human language as well as the data used to train these models. 

This could result in security breaches and lead to legal and compliance challenges.”  

According to Internet security specialist McAfee, only one-third of survey participants in India felt confident in their ability to distinguish between an AI-generated voice and that of a real person.  

The cybersecurity landscape is anticipated to face a range of evolving challenges and threats, including deepfakes, AI-driven phishing schemes, malware attacks, rogue applications, cryptocurrency scams, fake invoice scams, customer service scams, live deepfake videos, and advanced supply chain attacks targeting applications and software.

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Now let us take media ... in India and also in a global perspective.  

People around the world have been looking for clear and sober reporting (from media) and of course reasoned analysis about what's going around.... (say about Narendra Modi, Muslim appeasement in India or glorifying Jalebi take of Rahul Gandhi or even what's going on between Israel and Hamas); people have been unfortunately and generally treated to a steady diet of "advocacy journalism" that has pushed a certain narrative. 

Here is a forceful idea being pushed by 'Times of Israel' ---- "A damning report exposed the full extent of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias during the Israel-Hamas war. 

The analysis, spanning four months of the broadcaster’s coverage starting on October 7, uncovered a staggering 1,500 breaches of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and highlighted systemic failures to maintain its commitment to impartiality and accuracy during a conflict that has fueled a troubling rise of antisemitic bigotry worldwide."

In India we have many examples of Sickularism-inspired 'objectivity' in India.  

In June 2024, the same Liberal media did not fail to give the impression that the Congress has won the election just by taking the numbers of seats to 99. A real objective analysis should have been - there was setback for Narendra Modi and the BJP; but it is true the Congress could not come to power for three times in a row with Rahul Gandhi as the face of the grand old party. 

The loyalty club thought of looking the other when a Naga woman MP alleged that the behaviour and conduct of Rahul Gandhi was "unlike" the Leader of the Opposition, many thought let us 'blackout the entire news'. - Ting tong !!  

Nagaland Congress even went to the extent of staging a 'protest' against the woman lawmaker -- just because 'slavishly' they believe Rahul Gandhi cannot go wrong !! 

This is the arrogance and slavish loyalty of a party in a state where in two subsequent assembly elections 2018 and 2023 - it could not win a single seat. 

Of course, the Congress won the Lok Sabha poll and that was more of an accident or some trick and some magic power of voters. The local media will not look at all that probably because anything related to BJP is related to Narendra Modi and anything related to Modi is Hinduism and so all that must be opposed. 

Even the visit of a pro-Congress Shankaracharya in the name of cow protection movement has not been properly analysed and therefore even Naga intellectuals continue to believe in the fictional piece that CM Neiphiu Rio and Home Minister (Deputy CM) Y Patton showed guts in 'disallowing' the visit of a Hindu monk who was deputed by PM Modi.

Can BJP and NDA leaders have so much guts ?  

Take another Israeli example. 

In the aftermath of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel in April 2024, several British media outlets provided a platform for Seyed Mohammad Marandi. 

While he was presented innocuously enough as a University of Tehran professor, he is nonetheless an educator in a closed society, where the Iranian regime maintains control over every facet of life, including education. 

Moreover, Seyed Mohammad Marandi has been exposed as a former IRGC soldier. Despite this revelation, UK media continue to turn to the good professor for sage analysis. (Times of Israel) 

Look at few headlines and one-liners in a section of foreign media and how 'judgemental' they have been.

China's Global Times saw the lesser number of seats for the BJP as a constraint for Prime Minister Modi, saying his "ambition to compete with Chinese manufacturing and improve India's business environment will be difficult to accomplish".

The London-based The Times newspaper guessed that "India's poorest voters stopped the prime minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party from winning outright, forcing him to rely on support from the National Democratic Alliance."

They wrote, "Modi was forced to turn to local partners from the National Democratic ­Alliance (NDA) for support after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to retain its majority in the world’s largest general election, let alone achieve a predicted landslide."   

France's Le Monde wrote, "Modi set to remain India's PM but fails to win by landslide." 

" After 10 years of uninterrupted power, the prime minister won the parliamentary elections on Tuesday, June 4, with a narrow majority, at the end of a six-week marathon election."

The bitter truth of Indian politics today is that there is a growing unease among powerful regional players including Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mamata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress. RJD leader and a longtime friend of Congress, Lalu Prasad Yadav has made it worse when he said the Congress opinion was immaterial, the INDI alliance leadership should go to Mamata Banerjee. 

Hence, Rahul Gandhi’s image as the 'leader of the Opposition' has been open to challenges.

These have happened notwithstanding Congress winning 99 seats in June. The Congress also could not form the government in Haryana and Maharashtra.

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