Looking at past does not help. Fixing blames does not help. But accepting current realities help.
I see two enemies of Images of Judiciary and Legal Profession.
1) Journalists who have access to proceedings in Supreme Court and High Courts. They have mastery in journalism and Law both. Their aim is to produce a sensationaling headline to desk editors.
This they can do by quoting statements of judges out of context and sensalising such statements.
Overall effect of such sensationalisation is to produce Negative image of Judiciary. For press, it is only Negativity that sells. So they are rewarded for projecting negative image of Judiciary and Legal Profession. They do not miss even one chance to do it.
Ultimately, "Shared Perceptions become reality". So negative projections when shared by many becomes reality.
2) Biased crusaders on Social Media.
The social media has digital powers to magnify and multiply an image by a thousand times.
There are social media activists who have formed concrete bias against Judiciary and Legal Profession. They pick up every bit of negative news about Judiciary from around and they multiply it by thousands times. They contribute in sensational headlines created by Journalists who have access to proceedings in Supreme Court and High Courts.
3) Together they are inflicting heavy damages to images of Judiciary which in the end, harms every lawyer in his work also.
4) With social media, new concept of Social Engineering has come. It is a science of manipulating and destroying public image of any person or Institution. They have systematic tools... Like Journalists and Social Media activists.
5) The way to combat image breakers is to use same tools in a turn around way. Thus the two enemies can become two friends. This is what is written in Art of War. "Slay the enemy by using his own weapons"
