Conventionally, a particular happening creates a media ripple, and subsequently forces the people to think about it. But here in India, we can see media as catalysts of events that subsequently change the way people think! My point is, is media really that important?
News channels should confine themselves to just express a particular event in the most neutral fashion possible, and let the people decide what's right and what's not. They should function on a very unemotional and, let's say, robotic level. If you do want to shower your opinion on people, do it in editorial sections or weblog posts, why corrupt the prime-time slot with your incessant and irrelevant ramblings, or endless astrological bullshit? I don't want to know what to eat for breakfast so as to keep my luck ticking. I don't want to visit the gateway to the heavens! (would you believe that last one?!)
Why can't we guys censor news channels instead of cutting off vital chunks from unsuspecting films and DVD features? Why do sensible acts in movies get scissored off under the pretext of 'vulgarity' and 'profanity' and 'excessive violence', when news channels don't get prosecuted for their insanely stupid and half-baked notions? There should be a parameter for censorship, just like vulgarity, under which films and TV programs must be prosecuted, and that is, retardation. Yes, that would be the angelic solution to chuck off the rubbish that we face through Aaj Tak and India TV, etcetera, every single day!
I am almost beginning to sound like the stereotypical angry-young-man, but its actually we guys who are to blame. We watch these channels for the fun of it, for the sheer lunacy of it.We are the breeding ground for these news channels. Our attitude should be of indifference. The more we talk about it, the more we unintentionally popularise it. So, my appeal would be, to ignore what you just read, and keep mum. It was a mistake on my part to even write this, but now that realisation hit me a bit late, and the fact that I am a selfish loser, I'm not deleting this post.
Let's just keep the media to themselves. For pleasure or comedy, go watch Great Indian Laughter Challenge, or CID, for its lunacy and unintentional comedy. Don't poke fun at the news channels, leave them alone. Let the TRPs drop and see the change sweep its way in. Till then, I'd prefer CNN-ibn or NDTV.
4 comments:
I hundred percent agree with you. Why our media don't show some positive events. Is our country full with negative events and devoid of benevolent acts? Almost every channel will pick one topic and they will repeat it many-many times for half an hour. They also twist it according to their liking. Yesterday they gave a news. A two years' old boy at Sangli was tortured by his alcoholic step father by pricking burning cigarette on many parts of his body. They say that this incident was being done in presence of his mother, while an another channel told that his mother was protesting & crying against man, but was helpless. Hearing her & baby's cries neighborers ran up and rescued them.
Showing such scenes again & again on screen will stop such crime or give clues to others? Some ten others acts of goodness must be shown to encourage our people about goodness.
There is scarcity of channels presenting devotional songs or Qawalies.
Our electronic media must pay heed towards it.
_- Shailbala Misra.
Whoa boy !
You can write !
Well keeping that apart , everyone certainly has a piece of their mind for the media. And you said it right, pay no heed to these loathesomes, they'll perish some day.Watch some intelligent media if you really care.
- Sameeksha Khare
a comment after so many years!...thanx!!
no matter how much we crib and detest the mindless crap that we see everyday under the masquerade of news channels, we, at the core of our hearts, love seeing them...so the problem is not AMONGST us...the problem IS us!...we are not a PART of the problem...we ARE the only problem! (the irony of democracy for all to see and comment!)...
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