Saturday 15 February 2014

the fourth pillar

media: a political party, a business house, an entertainment show, a propagandist 

media is plural for medium. it is a medium of communication between government and the last living person in the society. it was called as "the fourth pillar" of our democracy. which shares great responsibility with other three pillars. lately it has become a business proposition, even an entertainment show. real news are read in a "duronto" manner, with no stoppage. one can see the shows like "24 ghante 24 reporter" or "100 seconds 100 news" etc.

was media always same? no, after the revolution of television in India. it has changed dramatically. in the race of television rating point (TRP) or to break the news first, they started inventing news instead of reporting. reporters are merely doing politicians press conferences than reporting the problems in rural India. news has also become an elite thing, there is hardly any media house, which is reporting rural problems.


big debates: prime time :-

this is evening, when the big guns of media houses sits with their "experts" to discuss mostly the politicians one liners or mostly these days "Gandhi-modi saga". I still don't understand these so called "experts". although it is quite visible that they are divided (biased) with their choice of party. one can see the regular experts panel, or some special newly appointed once. viewers have left with very little choice than to listen the ranting and raving of "experts". 

sting operations: elevator to quick and cheap fame-:
now a days sting operations are one of the cheap tricks from new media houses to come into fame or to carry out for political fame. an year ago gee news and navin jindal cross sting was one of the most controversial one. recently the media house owned by an congress man did controversial sting on aam aadmi party, which proved nothing.

nobody can question media:-

they have got constitutional right to question anybody, that is quite correct. but it doesn't make them unquestionable. they will grab all sort of false stories to claim seconds trp. but if  later somebody ask them to apologise for the false story they run for several day, give it a few seconds of apology.

taking over social media:-

the social media is a revolution in terms of mass communications. it has given individuals same amount of power as journalists. but when journalists have taken over these platforms such as twitter and Facebook. first they claim to have personal view and then discuss the same on their prime time news. how can anybody be so hypocritical about their personality. how can you have personal view mixed with news headlines and then be judgemental?

in this internet shabby generation,  people are wise. they form their opinion only after a conformation of any news. keep your eyes and ears open, and don't form opinion quickly.



 






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