The fourth pillar…crumbling....
Siddhant , Delhi: Jun 10 2008
Made Popular Jun 10 2008

Is the pillar crumbling or is it being demolished. the Media we are talking about.

If I could put in as undiplomatic language as I can a large section of mass based media is indulging in what is remotely related to something which can be called as news.

Well , News is a sacrosanct word which itself carries credibility and when some thing is tag as news automatically becomes something which has the power to effect people in a very serious manner.

I have no problems “things” like Smriti Irani back in kyoni, Catman, Inspector’s dog lost, cat stuck on a building…u are free to do what you want on your channel. The only thing which is not good is tagging them with word called news and putting in a so called news channel. A channel can be news channel, entertainment channel, family channel etc and one needs to run it like a business enterprise which needs TRP to run there business.to sustain itself. no doubts.

But when it’s a news channel there is some responsibility associated with it. and ethics.

It’s an important component of a democracy. And for a system to work each component should work in proper way.

We know about our politics. We had faith on Media. But if this components fails then what?

The middle class can change the channel or at best write a blog and then carry on what they are supposed to do...

The lower class is the most effected.

Ab you link Jaipur blast and quake in China with Shani’s Anger. And report murder murder murder mystery and various sazishes saases...what effect will it have on the national physic?

There are religious programs running on and on and on with amazing and new discoveries and actually they are good but only problem is that they are on a News Channel and presented in the most sensationalized manner that it makes fun of the religious faiths and beliefs.

With constipated heavy voice over and special effects what will its effect be on the gullible?

N now coming over to Arushi murder case…ahem ahem... now what the mass-based channels has to say now when CBI investigations are pointing some one else as the murderer.

Will you tender a national apology for repeatedly showing us how you were the one to tell us you were the one to find the murderer first.for those dramatized version…of those flashes….bap tha katil…..natkye rupantrans..thoze updates…nupur talwar ki gadi ka number…dr talwar ki phley raat custody may…..for posting those special exclusive videos and pics of arushi on apkey channel may? For those frist interwv wd drivr and maid servant….. for telling us she had so many bfs? For maligning the images of people?

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Asmita
Shimla, India
Oh lord... I so know what you mean Siddhant... I used to be an avid newswatcher and I used to to compulsively check headlines every hour to see whats on...

but now its days before I actually sit through a whole update...

I didnt even pay any attention to the Arushi murder at first cz i thought the media is just exaggerating...

Only after the CBI stepped in did I actually watch a special about the case... Media is so diluting the shock value of even the most gruesome crimes by over-sensationalizing issues..
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Sanwali
Shimla, India
If we look at Indian media, I think DD National still gives the meaningful and the important news.
All the private channels have commercialized media big time. These guys need to understand the dignity of the word media rather than making it cheap.
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Anupama M A
Noida, India
Let me be honest. I had been reading a ”masala” news paper for the past two months in Delhi and came back home today and reached out for The Hindu that I used to read regularly earlier. It was so dull and dissapointing. Two months of a daily dose of hyped up news and Shah Rukh and Kyonki had sort of got me believe that , that was news. So dont blame the media completely, when TRPs and readership increase when more masala is added they naturally resort to adding much more. It is the hype hungry public who should be blamed. There may be a handful of people who are against such news, but media has become a dog eat dog industry and in the end they want higher TRPs and readership to increase their bank balances. Real news takes a backseat.
Only more mature and aware audiences and readers can change the way media is today ,media will not change on its own
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Siddhant
Delhi, India
chk ds link n read first story.

http://dinesh-akula.blogspot.com/

after done ds i can only say a person of a sub standard intelligence level can love to watch ds to raise the trp level.

n let me reterate it again.

whn u are in media business u automatically bcm a reformer also.
opn an entertainmnt chanel if u want busines.
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