Ahh Indian media is changing, ya its true there’s no denying on the issue. when you switch on the idiot box and surf for news with your tool (remote). I mean one will be full of chaos that which channel is for news and for entertainment. But the only stuff that gone help you is the logo of the channel, otherwise it would have been a serious issue. I’m saying this because all Indian news channels have been 24X7 showing clippings of entertainment soaps and updating it viewers. They not only confined to the updates, but showing even whole episodes of some comedy shows or reality shows.
One of the leading channels yesterday showed Salman Khan promoting his upcoming film “Dabaang” at some engineering college in jaipur. The episode was issued as ‘Breaking news’ as salman requested for off for the student next day and during the promotion some of the faculty members and principal danced to the beats of salman. Now let it be the news about Big B blog on metro rail development destroying his privacy. So you must be getting what I’m trying to focus the media today is just creating hype on some senseless issues and still we are helpless to switch off or change the channel.
Journalism was known for its ethic and journalist as a Nobel professional. Today journalists basically find actual new stories in Morgue because now we don’t find news on news channels. The channels are focused on raising advertisement fund so u get 4 hours of add free free on it. The only change that can still take place is the start of screening of Movies on news channel. This would not amaze me as I know it would be possible soon. One can only find news in broadsheet even I do the same, read newspaper for my daily scope of news. But isn’t it sad to see our country suffering from such nuisance. Today we are developing in all stream so why the medium of communication getting into such shame. The media should think in the public interest and not in self -interest.
Sadly most hindi news channels do tend to over sensationalize the smallest of things, this trend was started by Aaj Tak but taken to new heights by IndiaTV, sometimes even in my own house when everybody is bored of the usual hard news India TV is put on to see what new 'masala' news they have. They themselves have an immense potential to bring petty news and create a report with graphics (very crude and amateurish) as if the World would not have been the same had they not covered that issue. Repeating the same footage over and over again till you get irritated.
ReplyDeleteif you want real hard hitting news which matters then switch to Times Now or CNN IBN
Really true as nowadayz itz people want masala, very few people are there who are really interested in news and in this media's fault is also there because they started showing Masala news and people appreciated and they give more encouragement to media to show all the masala news.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot fully blame to media also, because, as it is saying, "Media shows that thing only what people want to see and People see what media shows."
U have toh worked in a news channel and u also know how it works....dnt b sad ...woh kahte hain na humhe cheezon ki aadat dalne padti hain....its gud tat u wrote an article...But after few days u will also do d same thing for ur bread and butter ....
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