satyamev jayate

Role reversal

a television show, which is in its second season. mostly liked by the people for passing on voices of suppressed and neglected once. mostly by society, police and system. generally this is the job of  MEDIA. now we have different form, most popular and incompetent in its role is electronic media. which has started competing with entertainment channels, with all masaledaar debates and express news. this has become serious business of TRP's (television rating points). if anyone has missed any television series,need not to worry. our new entertainment channels will inform you in detail or may be entertain you with some more spiced up Bollywood news. what is any different than passing on information that attracts viewers and appeal to them so much? may be a Bollywood actor- aamir khan.  well certainly he present the show with little emotional touch. a nice song, unheard story and Sunday afternoon is a good time, people are relaxing in their house.

what media does?

media has very serious job to discuss every word comes out of any politician in detail. they sometimes do "badi bahas", "buck stops here". "left right and centre", "centre stage", "prime time" and many more with well groomed anchors, so called panel of "Ex-perts". many of their expert talk crap in most of the time overlapping each other, screaming. many of these anchors cant stop them and so often they use commercial break as weapon . all day one can see programs like Bollywood masala, or time bound news such as " 100 minute 100 news, 24 grantee 24 reporters,". sports  news are fully dedicated to cricket. this devotion is so much so that most of the people get confused by the other sports thinking, does India play any other sport. in my view media is doing everything than reporting.

lets dig little deep. according to statistics, over 1 lakh rape cases has been registered last year in the country. did media covered even 10% of that with more than a regular 5 second reporting. weren't these the work of media, these should have been topic of discussion. they should have done debates with the concerned officer in-charge of area on the progress of case, or what are the measures they are taking to make sure nothing of that happen again rather doing tu-tu mai -mai with cheap leaders.  a few rape cases found a lot of media attention because they got the public support. those cases could have gone same as others, if public were not on street .

money angle:-

some criticize just because a Bollywood actor chose to add some social angle in his entertainment side. people had not had any problem, if same actor would have done some entertainment show by taking probably more money than now. is it wrong if he can help raising the voice of suppressed and oppressed of society? he has social responsibility too. he is helping many NGO's to grow and raise fund for their good work. what is wrong if he is making money. if he can help in changing the mentality of society towards many of the issues that is alarming for system. that is acceptable, on the cost of he making crores. he could have made that money anyway by any game show or other reality show. so critics do criticize, but better use some real argument. jealousy leads to self destruction. keep in mind. 

i would suggest critics to do some self introspection and try to help media do some real reporting job instead becoming entertainment channels.