A case study on the largest trial by media against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda
INTRODUCTION
It was the largest media trial in history with endless life-threatening character assassinations against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda. The Anti-Hindu nexus unlawfully used the mainstream media, specifically the television and print, as its forefronting instrument for massive public penetration to reinforce hate perceptions into billions in India. It became the systematic barbarous media attack to eliminate His Divine Holiness from the human history, thereby tainting Sanatana Hindu Dharma.
Mass atrocity material was generated, which hit the highest airtime of 14,000 hours of airtime, 10,000+ print articles, 15,000+ unique weblinks within just four years – against His Divine Holiness, against the sacred Hindu ideologies such as the tradition of ‘Guru’ and ‘Sanyas’ (Hindu monk hood), and the Hindu lifestyle and symbols. The attack devastated the sacred religious sentiments of Hindu followers and turned those with faith into agnostics or indifferent of toward their own Hindu tradition as conspired.
The Premise
Tapping into the largest broadcasting mediums to implant hate perception against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda in India
The media of India consists of television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, Internet-based websites and new social media. Television and newspaper are the leading sources of news and entertainment for Indian households, with highest viewership among both the urban and the rural populus.
As per BARC India (broadcast audience research council), the country’s TV viewership monitoring agency, 780 million watched the television in 2017 (much more than all of Europe), from over 150 million in year 2010.
Television (46%) and Print (28%) was still the largest consumed segment of E&M (entertainment and media) industry in year 2009 as per Pricewaterhouse Coopers report in 2010.
No other medium or institution is as empowered as the Indian Media to effect the perceptions, opinions and behaviours of the largest growing population in the world. Ironically, this power has continuously been negatively used by the Indian media. This was noticed globally, marking Indian Media the most corrupt media in the world as reported by World Economic Forum through Edelman report.
Read further: The Case Study on the Indian Paid Media – Reports by Statutory and International
The Largest Media Trial in history – Endless Character Assassination on His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda
The Anti-Hindu nexus unlawfully used the Mainstream media as its forefronting instrument for its massive public penetration, what came to be the systematic barbarous attacks to character assassinate His Divine Holiness; an attempt to wipe Him off from the human history, thereby tainting Sanatana Hindu Dharma, from where He stems.
The media left no stone unturned in completely disparaging, damaging and destroying the sacrifice and untiring work of His Divine Holiness in giving SuperConscious breakthrough to every human being and fighting the religious cause of every Hindu. Every defamatory article published was a deeper attempt at character assassination.
Atrocity material generation of inhumane proportions against His Divine Holiness
Defamatory news and morphed video coverage hit the highest airtime record in an unprecedented history in India.
- Media hit 14,000+ hours of airtime, a shocking continuous run of 1.56 years non-stop!
- 10,000+ print articles
- 15,000+ unique weblinks of ‘atrocity material generation’ in just the first four years –
Outside India, the quickest way to defame was through the global social media.
- 1.5 million tweets on March 13th and 14th 2010. It was found that an unnatural majority of the tweets had originated from just 3 cities in the world – San Jose, Chennai and Coimbatore. Evidently, special teams were placed specifically to generate negative tweets.
Print and electronic media manufactured salacious pseudo-events to broadcast fabricated cases, strategized with many national and international anti-Hindu elements. The onslaught of these attacks was simultaneous and a 7-year-old organisation was too nascent to fight it back. Even before it could be understood what has happened, the damage was successfully done.
The manipulation, distortion and ridicule done by print media against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Mass atrocity material was generated with the theme to create public hatred, violence, cynicism against His Divine Holiness and the sacred Hindu ideologies such as the tradition of ‘Guru’ and ‘Sanyas’ (Hindu monk hood), and the sacred Hindu symbol of ‘ochre clothes’. The attack turned even those with faith into agnostics or indifferent toward their own Hindu tradition.
THE MEDIA OPPORTUNISTS TURN CONSPIRATORS
Breaching every code of ethics of journalism which promotes fair verifiable, factual reporting, valuing the fundamental, human and social rights, the opportunist media with vested interests brought shame to the whole journalism fraternity. Not only was the reporting false, it reached criminal proportions when media houses turned conspirators.
The main media houses Sun TV Network, Suvarna TV, Samaya TV forefronted the persecution. Several Indian media giants namely, Times Group (The Times of India, Times Now), TV Today Network, ZEE Group, DCHL (Deccan Chronicle, The Printers Mysore (Deccan Herald), Diligent Media Corporation (DNA), Bangalore Mirror etc. with multiple lakhs of readerships became facilitator to execute this planned religious persecution against His Divine Holiness.
Giving currency to the false news, many other regional media houses, relayed the same false news in more colored ways – just to gain TRPs and undue popularity at the expense of tarnishing the sacred repute of His Divine Holiness and the Hindu ideology.
This adds to a whopping 1.56 years of continuous 24×7 telecast of defamatory material of character assassination.
Past Attacks by Media
Whenever any Hindu Guru has risen and influenced the masses to empower and spiritually elevate humanity, he has been brutally attacked and defamed; Kanchi Shankaracharya, Osho, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda are some of Hindu Gurus and spiritual leaders, to name a few.
Today, media trials controlling the perceptions of millions through crowd manipulation tactics is a given fact – to assassinate the character, repute and life, of any influential leader by creating and sensationalising dubious stories.
WHEN THE ATTACK STARTED….
It was the biggest planned attack by media in the history, a religious persecution that led to The Hindu Holocaust, all instigated by the media.
March 2nd 2010, 8.00 pm:
A Tamil TV channel named Sun TV (one of the largest Indian mass media corporations with 33 TV channels under their control and a global viewership) aired a fake defamatory video of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda falsely portraying Him together with a South Indian actress Ms Ranjitha.
Within few hours of its telecast, it was picked by other TV and Internet channels. The next day, news reached all the national newspapers and His name was one of the top internet searches. The prime time of all the major regional channels showcased this news and ‘Paramahamsa Nithyananda’ became a known name both nationally and internationally within a week, for all the wrong reasons as planned by the conspirators.
THE INFAMOUS FAKE VIDEO
They started like a movie trailer. SUN TV started airing the movie of the actress allegedly in the video:
- Then, they started the “breaking news” showing blurred scenes of the actress in the created false video.
- The trailer stated – the name of the actress starts with “R” – every means was used to increase the suspense, buzz and TRP (target rating point).
- Then, the morphed fake video was flashed as if it was a shocking expose.
This whole modus operandi was revealed 2 years later by the Sun TV COO Hansraj Saxena, when he had a fall out with the channel, when he himself was made the victim of such nefarious attacks. He went on to give a sworn affidavit in the Court and came on public television but the Sun Network with its massive money influence and power threatened and suppressed every single channel and the news was wiped out from all electronic media in less than an hour.
Read about the – Forensic Reports from highly credible sources of four top-class experts, who are expert witnesses in USA as well as other countries, with multiple years of experience, have given their detailed analysis of the video, proving the video is FAKE.
https://nithyanandatruth.org/2012/03/16/forensic-evidence-finally-proves-the-morphed-video-was-fake-2-years-later-indian-police-and-media-thoroughly-discredited-but-the-damage-is-already-done/
Planned Attack shown as ‘News’: Sun TV Paid Assassins in the garb of Public
Sun TV sent its ‘Paid Assassins’ to destroy all Aadheenams (temple monastery complex) with the sole motive to hunt down and kill HDH Paramahamsa Nithyananda. When Sanyasis (Hindu monks) confronted and tried to protect their life, they beat them brutally, several female Sanyasis were sexually assaulted. They burnt effigies, abused the deity to His Divine Holiness, and staged protests in public places. They destroyed sacred heritage, Aadheenam property worth millions. The Sun TV relayed the planned attack as ‘News’ and portrayed it as public anger which was not true.
On March 4, 2010: Over 100 Temple Monastery communities attacked
100 Aadheenams were attacked in a day by the paid henchmen and each attack was broadcasted on all prime TV channels misrepresenting them as public outrage.
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After the gross persecution with the defamatory fake video, mainstream media carried on an unrelenting character assassination campaign. Within two days, the nature of news changed to abusal and character assassination, and further to extortion and life-attacks.
March – May 2010:
- The dark month of March witnessed fake allegations of murder, attack on the chastity of Guru-disciple relationship, false stories of illegal ownership of land, rape, storage of sandalwood, forceful detention and ill-gotten wealth.
These series of fake and defamatory articles were mainly published by media houses namely Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express, DNA and Deccan herald and other regional media houses.
YELLOW JOURNALISM AT ITS WORST – SENSATIONALISM, LIES, LIFE THREAT AND OBSCENE VIDEO AIRED
The fake news was published with heavy reliance on unnamed sources; false interviews and panel discussions of paid people, cheap comedy shows during prime time in TV channels with exaggerated dramatization, mockery, abusal, life-threat – aired constantly!
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Photo inlay: TV channels took the religious persecution of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda to inhumane magnitude. The stage was set for populating atrocity material generated by Paid Media.
September-December 2010
- Deccan Chronicle reported on the making of a Film parody about the false rape case, made mockery of His Divine Holiness and boldly invited readers to make a mockery of Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
- The New Indian Express takes an extremist stand defaming spiritual leader and glorifies criminals – it published false defamatory statements against Paramahamsa Nithyananda uttered by the child rapist, Vinay Bharadwaj and co-conspirator, Lenin Karuppan and glorified them as heroes. (Read more)
January- December, 2011
- A illegitimate mockery movie to extort money and defame: Kannada Film producer Madan Patel and actor Sri Ravi Chetan used the religious persecution to create sensational, deceiving atrocity material as movies, causing irreparable damage. Further, Film Producer Madan Patel tried to extort Rs. 4 crores (40 million) from the spiritual community of His Divine Holiness, to not release the infamous movies ‘Sathyananda’ in Kannada and ‘Ayyare’, a Telugu movie.
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- When media was invited by His Divine Holiness on the sacred day of Guru Purnima to witness live scientific recording of ‘Activation of the certain parts of the human brain through the ancient spiritual technique of kundalini awakening and Levitation’ (anti-gravity) through initiation, they misrepresented it as a ‘con, comedy and repulsive show’ to the readers and viewers by Kannada news channel Suvarna TV
June 2012
Crime Conspiracy of Suvarna TV
Suvarna TV attempted assassination on His Divine Holiness and attacked disciples and filed false complaints and illegally got them arrested.
Life-attack on Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Suvarna TV Channel paid its staff to abuse women devotees physically. Police illegally arrested the female Sanyasis (Monks) but took no action against the criminals.
Read More:
https://nithyanandatruth.org/2012/06/08/police-atrocities-woman-arrested/
Justice Prevails
Legal Action on the Media houses by the Broadcast bodies such as BCCI, Press Council of India and by Indian Court and USA Court.
In a historic move that marks the first ever personal legal action against the media aggressors, His Divine Holiness filed the first criminal defamation complaint in 2012.
The media channels and tabloids were finally questioned by their regulating bodies and by the Judiciary for illegally airing the fake video and slandering His Divine Holiness. They were forced to publicly air apologies. Ironically, the main television channel Sun TV was denied their broadcasting license when requested renewal.
Multiple apologies were ordered by Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC), media self-regulatory body for airing the information carelessly without exercising caution and verifying the authenticity of the same. A TV channel ‘Star Vijay’ was forced to air apologies on their TV scroll every 2 hours.
https://nithyanandatruth.org/2012/03/26/swamiji-files-his-first-ever-criminal-defamation-complaint/
- INJUNCTION ORDER AGAINST 9 NEWS CHANNELS: In April 2012, injunction against 9 major media houses were issued. Bangalore City Civil Court passed an interim injunction order against 9 Bangalore Television news channels including TV9, Survarna 24×7, Kasthuri, Udaya, Janashri, Public TV, E TV, Samaya 24×7 and News 9 restraining them from exhibiting, broadcasting or telecasting of programmes, reports, clippings or visuals in a false or derogatory manner.
- 5 NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS ADMONISHED: The judge at Press Council of India openly admonished 5 national newspapers DECCAN HERALD, THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, THE MID-DAY and DAILY NEWS & ANALYSIS (DNA) for their false, malicious and defamatory reports, publishing abusive news about Paramahamsa Nithyananda without performing the basic duty of first consulting him and ascertaining his version of the events.
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- SUN TV EX-COO CONFESSES VIDEO WAS FABRICATED: In December 2012, after overwhelming forensic evidence proved that the morphed video on Paramahamsa Nithyananda, aired by Sun TV in 2010, was false and fabricated, ex-COO of Sun TV Mr. Hansraj Saxena confirmed that the video was actually fabricated and a product of a huge conspiracy to blackmail and extract money from Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
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Sun TV ex-COO Confesses about Morphed Video: ‘CD was a threat drama staged by News Editor’
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Single biggest major victory against a paid news channel in the history of India.
Throughout 2012 to 2017, the channel chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj of Samaya TV (a South Indian TV News channel) had conspired with child molester Vinay Bharadwaj (who was fined $ 1/2 Million USD for repeated counts of child molestation) to attack His Divine Holiness. In this desperate attempt, the channel had aired false defamatory news programs for 1000 hours total.
The South Indian (Kannada) news television channel Samaya TV and chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj were found guilty of defamation and civil conspiracy by the USA Court.
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Ramanagara Court registers case and issues summons to news channel Samaya News, Ranganath Bharadwaj Chief Editor and Anchor of Samaya News, film producer Madan Patel and self-professed activist Bhima Shankar Patil, for multiple serious crimes including criminal intimidation, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, criminal conspiracy, acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention, and defamation against His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
- In Dec 2017, the USA Court fined Suvarna TV with $5 Million (equivalent to Rs. 32 Crore) judgement for broadcasting false news about His Divine Holiness and his USA mission.