THE BAZAAROO OPINION MAKERS
Journalists writers and intellectuals are less in numbers but large in influence because power resides in words and ideas and not in numbers. These are the opinion makers of all times.
Political parties are aware of this truth. That is the reason they cultivate them. This sort of cultivation needs proper and timely care in terms of making proper grounds for their planting, watering and use of suitable fertilizers. In other words they have to taken care of in words and deeds. Their material requirement have to be met. Their ego has to be nurtured.
In the beginning it happens without their knowledge but before they know it they have already become used to those comforts. Who would not need a flat in Asian Village or in journalists colony with modern facilities at no or minimum cost?Those foreign junkets of seminars, workshops, study and all that do come with a price. The price is unflinching support to the political outfit that is footing the bill.
They are present every where. They know how to sell their wares. They however do not know that in doing so they have sold themselves.
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