Kalmadi arrested, follows brouhaha. Journalists seek opinion of the Congress leaders trying to sensationalize the issue, attempting to click the sneaky; lame snaps of the political honchos who earlier supported him. All the mainstream media channels bring a newshour, with representatives from the major political streams, debating upon the arrest adding up to the brouhaha. Newspapers bring up storylines featuring the night spent by him in jail. How insipid the food was, how he suffered with the heat there, how he got irritated with the biting mosquitoes and the open loo issues. Media does understand the nerve of the society. It all flows from the natural human tendency to see the one in pain who deceives, irritates, fights, frowns whatever. And yeah media does that with acumen.
Kanimozhi, she is followed with a bigger brouhaha. Actually an anecdote of a sobbing father, turning up to meet her at jail with complete details in bullets of his whole trip, not leaving even the minutes in time. Starting from his ignition of the plane in Tamil Nadu till the stoppage of his Mercedez at the jail doors, media people leave nothing. Next comes the meet; wow, I loved this part really. As like media goes, "Pita-beti dono ro rhe the; raajneeti ka shaatir khiladi aaj paristhiyon ke saamne haarkar ro pada". The language greatly resembled that of Mahabharata, "Mata Gandhari apne putr Duryodhan ki dasha ko dekh kar vichlit ho padi".
Serving brouhaha, isn't an issue. The issue is of cooking the news with ingredients of crispy story telling and spicy garnishing of the sufferings. The triviality of the news stuff diminishes it's quality and cheapens people's opinion towards the agency. I don't know who would be the person still watching INDIA TV for news, I mean some real news, not a person hanging in air; living underwater, climbing building, all that stuff. It really amazes me, how this channel is still surviving and I believe the same flock to be responsible for welcoming all the crispy cooking going on in other news channels. Stop this please! You're degrading the news culture.
Revolutions in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain have furnished the capability of media. Media activism played a major role in turning the table round in all these countries. We need to realize the importance of media and are ought to use it as a transparency and accountability tool instead of competing for TRPs with senseless brouhahas.
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