BOB'S BANTER
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TV Courts..!
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Article published on 7/27/2010 11:32:13 PM IST
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The judge stared horrified at a message he’d just received, “Your services are no longer required!” said the message. He looked up from the piece of paper and stared at the empty courtroom in front of him, he looked down at the clerk who was sitting staring at his old typewriter, “Where is everybody?” he thundered.
“At the trial your honour!”
“But I am the judge!”
“No more your honour!”
“I have been sacked!” cried the judge, staring at the piece of paper in front of him, “And who has replaced me!”
“Anchors on TV your honour, sorry, your ex-honour!”
“Who appointed them judges?”
“The people of India!”
“What is wrong with the way I conducted my trials?”
“Not sensational enough your honour! You allowed the defendant to defend himself, but in the TV courtroom, there is no defense! The judge attacks, tears arguments to pieces, stalks the defendant like a lion, jumps on him like a tiger, shakes him like a wolf, spits him out, chews him up, and the jury love it!”
“The jury?”
“We are the jury! We come with rope, sticks and noose and even before the judge has had his fill, we string up the victim and lynch him! All over in an hour!”
“A trial in just an hour?”
“Yes your ex-honour, much more economical than the weeks and months you take. No jail, no prison wardens, no taxpayers money paid for security: It’s just accuse and hang, simple! You want to see a TV trial your honour?”
The old judge who had just been sacked along with all the other judges in the country, walked over to the little house where the clerk lived, he watched as the clerk put on the TV set at the end of the room. He watched the set come to life.
He watched the anchor conducting the trial that was taking place.
And soon he clapped with glee as the anchor like ferocious lion or cunning fox hunted and played with their prey. He cheered and his clerk applauded too, “I am enjoying it!” shouted the judge.
“Now you are the jury!” shouted the clerk, “And once this trial by the media is over we will hang the victim!”
And so TV screens crackle and cackle in homes all over the country as the new Trial by Media becomes a way of life and TV anchors, the new self proclaimed media judges, replace the old fashioned, outmoded, outdated justice system that allowed a defendant to prove his innocence, once upon a time, long, long ago in what was once a fair country..!
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