First day at Loksatta

Today, I started working for Loksatta. We went to Vijay Nagar Colony, and did door to door campaign for Loksatta. People in the area we covered were highly educated and of upper middle class. We got a very positive response. We heard dialogues like,

• I know about Jayaprakash Narayana.
  
• I know about Loksatta. You don't need to tell anything.
  
• I know Jayaprakash Narayana since he was IAS officer.
  
• I work for Gemini TV. I interviewed Jayaprakash Narayana.
  
• When Jayaprakash Narayana was Managing Director, I was a General Manager.
  

We went to a house, and asked the watchman to call some one in the house. He went and called, and one person came down. After seeing him, I felt like seeing him somewhere. I wondered whether he was a cine actor or not. But, could not get clarity. His name is K.Sankar Rao. He started asking questions like what is the position of the party, whether it is going to make alliance with Chiranjeevi party etc. When we were discussing, I heard three words, "BJP, his brother, and Satyanaranapuram". I got it by that. Kota Srinivasa Rao got BJP ticket for Satyanarayanapuram assembly loksabha constituency. K.Sankar Rao is famous actor in TV serials. I stopped watching TV serials a long time back. So, I could not recognize him immediately.

After that campaign, I went to Loksatta Party Office, and attended the Press Meet of Dr.Jayaprakash Narayana. One common problem that I observed about the media is, the journalists do not have that much understanding about politics, and administration. They are expecting the answer for any question in very simple words known to everyone. The problem is there for all the journalists of all the news papers, and TV Channels. They force the politicians to give their stand on some thing which is not a problem. Even if Dr.JP clearly says that, it is a not problem because of X, Y, Z, still they ask him to tell in simple words like Support or Oppose. But, they are not aware of "Does not matter". They don't understand it, and because of that, they cannot write it in the news clearly. That is a big disadvantage of Loksatta.