The press council chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, has hit journalists—especially journalists who show off their JNU, St. Stephen’s, ACJ, Presidency, St. Xavier’s, Loyola, IIT-IIM, Colombia, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge credentials in their sentence constructions—where it hurts most.
In saying that he did not think that we have “any knowledge of economic theory or political science or literature or philosophy“, the former Supreme Court judge has stopped just short of calling us idiots and ignoramuses, who presume a divine right to inform, educate and entertain the world, no questions asked.
To no one’s surprise, the egos punctured by Katju have responded in kind (here, here, here).
But there is another way to prove Justice Katju wrong than dashing off indignant press releases reeking with anger and self-righteousness. And that is to show him that we have read something and that we do actually have some knowledge of economic theory, political science, literature and philosophy.
(You do, don’t you?)
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