I know that this particular topic is a bit too late for me to talk on but this was amongst one of the things that I had up my mind and wanted to talk on the same.
When was the last time that such hue and cry was made regarding any election campaign anywhere in the world (leave alone the elections happening in our
motherland). Yesterday when I saw that prime time slots on news channles were crowded by the pictures of dignitories that visited the presidential ceremony, one
thought ran across my mind "is all this shit worth it?" Then i realised that 'buttering' others is so ingrained in us that we cannot get it out of our systems even if we
want to. We have this state of utopia for USA and feel that US is the panacea for all our miseries.
I bet when we would ask who is the President of India atleast half the population would not be able to answer that, if not more. The question that is raised many a
times about news channels is that, "if people are not interested in the news then they should not watch such channels thereby not support the lame cause of the
channels" Here I would like to make a point stating that what is one supposed to do when all the channels adopt the same strategy?? Besides sometimes the channels
are watched so as to see the live updates (breaking news) which the channels would go ahead and consider as the broadcast is accepted by the public, indicated
through TRPs.
This shows that data can be manipulated in whichever way desired and then these channels come up with claims like the best news channels in its category, best live
coverage etc. It is time that the channels stop feeding crap to the country as everyone is tired of it but the channels support their cause by showing the TRPs. All in
all, I just want to say that it is time that media realized that the audience has had enough and they should start behaving more responsibily.
