A decade before, when I was a little kid, my dad used to sit infront of the TV set, take remote control from us and listen to those news readers on Doordarshan between 8:30 to 9:30. First in Hindi and then in English. The news that time was concise, precise and relevant. But today we have so many news channels running 24x7 showing the same news, repeating the same dialogues and making news out of practically nothing.
I was changing channels a few days back & stopped at a news channel out of amazement because it was giving a news " Obama killed a house fly". They showed a clip that how Obama mercilessly murdered a house fly when the fly was interrupting him while giving the interview. Another example is a breaking news "Sugna ka Pati mar gaya" ( Sugna's Husband Died). I am not much a TV freak so I didn't knew who was sugna. Then my mother told me she is a character in Balika Vadhu. I can give many examples where these news channels try to make news even when there is none. Well its not their fault, they have to somehow keep things going on becaue there can't be something happening 24 hours.
On the other hand. media has done a remarkably great job in times of natural calamities, war situations where they have kept the common man updated about each and every move. But is this enough to cover what they do rest days? These news channels mislead most of the time. Take the surat gang rape case, the journalist showed that the convicts had orkut profiles with " Danger is my play, risk is my game" written and they both joined a community called born to lead. But there can be 1000s of people with that same thing, so are they rapists too? They use sentences like " Shiney ne naukrani ki izzat looti". They have forgot the decoram of public speaking and on top of it , they repeat it a thousand times.
Most of the channels brag about themselves, as an example of it when a news channel kept on broadcasting " XYZ (news channel) ke kaaran bachi prince ki jaan".
These channels can use the time they have in educating people, letting then know about their responsibilties and rights as citizens of India.
Media is mirror of a country. So , its necessary to keep it sparkling.
I was changing channels a few days back & stopped at a news channel out of amazement because it was giving a news " Obama killed a house fly". They showed a clip that how Obama mercilessly murdered a house fly when the fly was interrupting him while giving the interview. Another example is a breaking news "Sugna ka Pati mar gaya" ( Sugna's Husband Died). I am not much a TV freak so I didn't knew who was sugna. Then my mother told me she is a character in Balika Vadhu. I can give many examples where these news channels try to make news even when there is none. Well its not their fault, they have to somehow keep things going on becaue there can't be something happening 24 hours.
On the other hand. media has done a remarkably great job in times of natural calamities, war situations where they have kept the common man updated about each and every move. But is this enough to cover what they do rest days? These news channels mislead most of the time. Take the surat gang rape case, the journalist showed that the convicts had orkut profiles with " Danger is my play, risk is my game" written and they both joined a community called born to lead. But there can be 1000s of people with that same thing, so are they rapists too? They use sentences like " Shiney ne naukrani ki izzat looti". They have forgot the decoram of public speaking and on top of it , they repeat it a thousand times.
Most of the channels brag about themselves, as an example of it when a news channel kept on broadcasting " XYZ (news channel) ke kaaran bachi prince ki jaan".
These channels can use the time they have in educating people, letting then know about their responsibilties and rights as citizens of India.
Media is mirror of a country. So , its necessary to keep it sparkling.
