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Wai! everyone’s thundering

5 November 2009

Wai! This is the land of the Thundering Dragon, Bhutan. And indeed it is, if what is going on in the media circle these days is anything to go by. Everybody is thundering – CEOs, editors,
reporters, and newspapers.
First, six reporters and an editor thundered out of the newsroom citing managerial interference
into the editorial independence. Immediately, all the newspapers in the country thundered in unison. They thundered: All is out with the BT!
Against the newsroom ‘renegades’, the BT thundered: Conspiracy, conspiracy! Then, BICMA
thundered from its high office. It thundered: We deeply regret…Yours legally. But the BT out-thundered the BICMA. It thundered: State controls the news? Yours deeply insulted. Then, the BT editorial thundered: Reeking of conspiracy! Where are editorial principles and ethics?
Then, the calm descended for a brief period amid hushed comments and queries. And everybody retreated into the background.
And suddenly, lo and behold, another paper is thundering exclusively. It is Bhutan Today. The editorial thundered: The so-called scribes told the management of another paper that they would come in, all seven of them, and the condition was simple: the management of the paper would have to sack eight of their old workers and most of the designers and the editor! You call these journalists!
Late last evening, a thundering friend of mine thundered at me: Ap Tsara, why don’t you thunder as well? I said, “I belong to the land of the Peaceful Dragon, not the Thundering Dragon.”

Thundering BhutanWai! This is the land of the Thundering Dragon, Bhutan. And indeed it is, if what is going on in the media circle these days is anything to go by. Everybody is thundering – CEOs, editors, reporters, and newspapers.

First, six reporters and an editor thundered out of the newsroom citing managerial interference

into the editorial independence. Immediately, all the newspapers in the country thundered in unison. They thundered: All is out with the BT!

Against the newsroom ‘renegades’, the BT thundered: Conspiracy, conspiracy! Then, BICMA

thundered from its high office. It thundered: We deeply regret…Yours legally. But the BT out-thundered the BICMA. It thundered: State controls the news? Yours deeply insulted. Then, the BT editorial thundered: Reeking of conspiracy! Where are editorial principles and ethics?

Then, the calm descended for a brief period amid hushed comments and queries. And everybody retreated into the background.

And suddenly, lo and behold, another paper is thundering exclusively. It is Bhutan Today. The editorial thundered: The so-called scribes told the management of another paper that they would come in, all seven of them, and the condition was simple: the management of the paper would have to sack eight of their old workers and most of the designers and the editor! You call these journalists!

Late last evening, a thundering friend of mine thundered at me: Ap Tsara, why don’t you thunder as well? I said, “I belong to the land of the Peaceful Dragon, not the Thundering Dragon.”

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