Indian Media:Irresponsible yet most effective
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Well, Who owns the Indian Media?
Media is supposed to be the mirror of the society. It builds the consensus of a nation over which that nation grows and develops in its culture, dynamism and intellect. But in recent years Indian Television media has put forward such a agnostic picture of themselves that I fail to understand the reason for those channels being aired and concept of media seems to be in doldrums. Democratic system of Indian Republic gave birth to a free and independent media but media has very recently downgraded itself to a new version and its not media, its Entertania(Entertainment+Media). INDIA'S FREE AND INDEPENDENT ENTERTANIA.
Recently I was in Noida discussing about Indian Media with a businessman named Sajeev Mathur. He told me about a incident which happened recently in Noida. He said that in a house in nearby sector there lived a family of three. Husband and Wife, aging around 40, with their niece. There was some quarrel between this girl and her local guardian who were the people with whom she was living in Noida. Girl went to police station and filed a complaint against her local guardian charging the man, who was living there, of molestation and attempt to rape. This news some how reached to media people. They made their own judgment and showed the story on TV and declared those local guardians as convicts while police was yet to take action.
Now these husband and wife, they were so ashamed and there ego so much hurt that they both committed suicide. Later, after police investigation it was found that husband wife were not the culprits rather it was the girl who used to go around with a boy and when guardians tried to resist her she used to get angry and often quarrel with them and one day she decided to take revenge. So she reported fake molestation charges to police. The two innocent died because they could not bear the desolate from the society. None of the media person ever came up for any kind of apology, showing height of irresponsibility.
I was shocked after hearing this news. But now a days these shocks have become so common that every time you open a news channel they are ever ready to serve you with some new kind of shock.
Mumbai terror attacks showed entirely new face of media. Media reporters are great actors too. They were posing themselves as they are more close to terrorist than the policemen who were fighting there. One of the reporter was lying on the floor and reporting in that posture only, while a policeman was standing beside them comfortably and a news reporter from some foreign news agency was reporting with all ease while standing. More respectful journalist like Barkha Dutt was pretending herself, which was very easy for someone to understand, that those crocodile tears are not for the nation but for the TRP which is the first and last thing which matters the most to these media..
News channels have become combo pack channels containing a bit of other entertainment channels and these stuffs have nothing to do with any kind of news. These ENTERTANIA channels have done something to the viewers. They have divided them into two groups, one running away from such media and other group enjoying it. People in real search of news are moving towards more contemporary news style like online contents and blogs. But the thing of concern is that the media today is reeling under identity crisis...people have forgotten the role of media in shaping up the society and they think media channels to be a great time pass with every news being a breaking news.
