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Media syndicate trying to destroy Communist movement: Pinarayi

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the `media syndicate' working in the State is a small form of the `embedded journalism' (which reported news as told by the US Army in Iraq).

Talking at a seminar on `media intervention in democratic society' organised as part of the NGO Union State conference here on Wednesday, Mr. Vijayan said that the syndicate was trying to destroy the movement.

Comparing the Nadigram incident with the Punappra-Vayalar struggle was part of the `ploys' of the syndicate, he said. "This syndicate is trying to belittle the relevance the party has today. A strategy is involved in all this," Mr. Vijayan said.

He said that as part of its strategy, the media syndicate was fabricating stories by projecting certain individuals and trying to put across the message that the CPI(M) was against the working class and the common man.

It was this syndicate which tried to establish that the CPI(M) and the Congress were one and the same. However, there was fundamental difference between the two parties.

As part of this strategy, the syndicate was raising some `isolated cases' of nepotism and corruption during the LDF rule that was rampant during the UDF rule.

He said that the party was not calling everybody who was against it media syndicate. Constructive criticisms were welcomed by the party, he said.

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