Whats wrong with the Media..!!??

The media is perhaps a contact point between the world and the common man .!! But time has come when we actually begin to question the efficiency of the media..!! How many of us are bugged with the non-sensical news channels.I am sure almost all…

Well the ignition point of this blog too lies there..the thought came after I saw this particular news channel boasts of a breaking news mind you “Breaking News”…Ashwathama is alive ..Gosh this would lead almost all the historians in this country to scratch their heads… and wonder ok are we really talking about the Ashwathama from the Mahabharat Era..

A boy falls in a ditch and over the next 48 hours all the news channel are hovering around shooting pictures rather than saving that poor child .I wonder how do camera men shoot these ghastly pictures because logically if you see an accident you would rather keep your camera down and save the grieved .

Anyways not all the media people are doing this bad. Barkha Dutt is doing a great job.. The Tehelka guy Tarun Tejpal had a good thought in his mind ofcourse though in India even the most corrupted find an alibi and the judiciary system tries its best to save even the worst .Thus Mr.Tejpal having a hell lot of time exposing the worst came as a no surprise to me .

When I was a young boy of say 12 or 13 my parents used to tell me “Son you got to watch the news channels to stay updated “ I wonder what will I tell my son perhaps” Son ,better stay away from the news channels ,because they show you the maximum violence and minimum of relevant news” .I wonder what good can any show like “Vardaat “ or “Jurm” do to the psyche of a young child .No wonder a class 8 kid shot down his own classmate in a Gurgaon school yesterday .

If electronic media is exposing young minds to hell lot of violence and crime ,how can print media stay any far behind . When I was back in St.George’s College ,Mussoorie ,guys used to get the Times Of India for the second page for reasons well known to the Y-Generation.! So well if some years down the line if I have to stop the daily news paper supply to my home, don’t take it as a money-saving measure rather take it as a embarrassment escaping method.!

Today the media can be defined in single word. “Gossip” and nothing else. Gone are the days when a newspaper could bring about a revolution in the country and when the top and the most intellectual minds in the country wrote articles, influential enough to drive men , women and children out of their houses to unite and fight for their motherland.

All that is left on the screens and paper are pretty faces with no substance to hold fort .

Has the world become so non-happening that the media has to resort to absurd news broadcasting to stay afloat. This is a question that the media people need to answer soon because Indian public is not as stupid as they think .Pretty face and flimsy covers wont stay afloat for long . The TRPs will soon be southward bound .So wake up … before its too late ..