Top things which sell as hot cakes in India!
Nowadays it’s all about TRP. Media has gone ignorant of the fact that it has a responsibility of providing healthy and useful information to people. Instead all every channel is striving for is a better TRP rating than others.
Arushi murder case was followed every day by Aaj Tak as if it was an investigating firm rather than a news channel. They even intruded into the privacy of lives of the victim and the accused. You could write a documentary or make a movie with the extensive coverage they had provided of the murder case. Media is in forefront to cover any crime related news. Bomb blasts or killings are sensationalized like they are thrillers. What the media people forget in the bargain is that by airing so much of bloodshed and killings etc, they might actually be planting seeds of revenge in minds of innocent people.
The next much talked about thing in our country is cricket. It is the most passionately followed sport in India. Channels have dedicated slots for this sport. Media has spokespersons and commentators, retired cricket players and officers to comment on it.
The news of Big B being in hospital on his birthday was on the front page of a leading newspaper on 11th October. This much coverage would have been given to the prime minister ideally. But in India the common man is more interested in knowing about what the film stars are doing, who is dating whom, who said what to whom, who attended which party etc. All this has started taking precedence over important worldly affairs.
Not far behind in the league of attracting viewers with spicy news are the sting operations on politicians. Airing corruption that obtains in all walks of life has made people wonder whether there is any better place left to live in or whether every human being has become corrupt.
As media has become a 24 hour service, it’s losing its integrity and essence. Repetition of unimportant new items on all channels is just a waste of time, money and energy. Content-wise, news media has become very week.
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Fair Enough. Media is mad for these type of issues.