Tagore once famously said:
Blessed is he whose fame doesn't outshine his truth
And I'm sure if he had witnessed the contemporary state of media, he would have been truly amused and and would have presented another liner for them:
Blessed is he whose truth doesn't outshine his fame
Without trying to be unnecessarily superfluous, let me come straight to the point. It does amuses me to note the superfluous attention showered by the media on any subject while ignoring other issues of equal or say even greater importance.
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Change scene:
Come 2006-One five year old falls into a 52 feet deep pit,stays therefore 50 hrs...And the news channels show their fraternity by allotting an excessively prolonged coverage to that issue; to harass both the "issue" and the viewers Camera kept an account of what the boy ate, drank and even how he cried(I'm not kiddin).The boy was finally rescued in the evening and after a tearful reunion, the boy and the family lived happily ever after...It was jus like those K-serials where the protagonist dies and comes back from the graves and the cameraman focuses on everybody's reaction and this doesn't end before three episodes...I mean com'mon
guyz can sumone tell me how this news is more important than all the world news put together...The boy wasn't unconscious or badly injured...they cud have provided the one line updates of the news but nooooooo....united we stand, divided we fall......If the current ethics of Indian Media justify sensationalism instead of reporting then people I think Balaji Telefilms and AAJ TAK are one and the same...
Cheers!!!
Jayasri
Blessed is he whose fame doesn't outshine his truth
And I'm sure if he had witnessed the contemporary state of media, he would have been truly amused and and would have presented another liner for them:
Blessed is he whose truth doesn't outshine his fame
Without trying to be unnecessarily superfluous, let me come straight to the point. It does amuses me to note the superfluous attention showered by the media on any subject while ignoring other issues of equal or say even greater importance.
.
.
.
.
Change scene:
Come 2006-One five year old falls into a 52 feet deep pit,stays therefore 50 hrs...And the news channels show their fraternity by allotting an excessively prolonged coverage to that issue; to harass both the "issue" and the viewers Camera kept an account of what the boy ate, drank and even how he cried(I'm not kiddin).The boy was finally rescued in the evening and after a tearful reunion, the boy and the family lived happily ever after...It was jus like those K-serials where the protagonist dies and comes back from the graves and the cameraman focuses on everybody's reaction and this doesn't end before three episodes...I mean com'mon
guyz can sumone tell me how this news is more important than all the world news put together...The boy wasn't unconscious or badly injured...they cud have provided the one line updates of the news but nooooooo....united we stand, divided we fall......If the current ethics of Indian Media justify sensationalism instead of reporting then people I think Balaji Telefilms and AAJ TAK are one and the same...
Cheers!!!
Jayasri
1 comment:
I have infact discussed the very same issue in my bvb class n even wrote an article titles 'is the media crossing the laxman rekha'.stay tuned..wll put it up in my blog soon. I for one stand up with you in this. There is unneccessary glorification, sensationalism and even sensualization( if thats a word!..dude check out the number of times malika sherwat dancing at some hotel in her ..umm..some kinda clothes was played the entire night and day over all the channels!) of media. More than news its the sensational stories that sell. They try to justify this by saying that they are 'informing' the public...HELLOOOO..is the public blind and can't see the news in the first go or can't read it? But no...they have to rerun the entire thing millions of times...thats 'informing' you...new defination eh...guess webster should update its defination of the word!
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