Don't know what one should say after hearing such crap. Passing the buck is fine. But not to this extent.
Who is responsible for India's loss in the first match of the World Cup to Bangladesh? Is it Dravid, Chappell, Sachin, or Sehwag. No it's Mrs. Indira Gandhi. How come? I thought she had died long back. Tell me how is she to blame? Fool, don't you know it was she who created Bangladesh!
However the way TV news channels and newspapers cover news nowadays, even this has earned its place on some channels and papers. What more can one say about way the media portrays itself nowadays.
Another news item i have mostly heard on some popular news channels. A person has died somewhere, the person hosting the news asks his news reporter at the funeral site, " Waha pe kya mahaul hai" (How is the atmosphere around there). Obviously the reporter would not say, "Yaha pe khushi ka mahaul hai" (People are celebrating his death here). Hearing such crap and breaking news inside people's homes has really showed the level of news coverage nowadays.
Who is responsible for India's loss in the first match of the World Cup to Bangladesh? Is it Dravid, Chappell, Sachin, or Sehwag. No it's Mrs. Indira Gandhi. How come? I thought she had died long back. Tell me how is she to blame? Fool, don't you know it was she who created Bangladesh!
However the way TV news channels and newspapers cover news nowadays, even this has earned its place on some channels and papers. What more can one say about way the media portrays itself nowadays.
Another news item i have mostly heard on some popular news channels. A person has died somewhere, the person hosting the news asks his news reporter at the funeral site, " Waha pe kya mahaul hai" (How is the atmosphere around there). Obviously the reporter would not say, "Yaha pe khushi ka mahaul hai" (People are celebrating his death here). Hearing such crap and breaking news inside people's homes has really showed the level of news coverage nowadays.
6 comments:
kudos to u cedric! can u pls post it on one of the news channel sites,maybe NDTV or some such site. quite hits the nail hard!
i hope n wish that cricket fanatics start looking at the sport as a sport. n if they like cricket it shud irrespective of the team.
the funeral stuff too is really sarcastic. if u dont ut his up on some site, i will hv to do it. so u do it instead dude! hope media changes its approach n content. they must be more responsible considering they r so powerful. i mean even one single popular news chanel can start such a non-existant news to create trouble. these guys need to get better rather than showing such crap n being in the rat race to show absolutely utter rubbish!
@ revathi: Hey thanks for appreciating this article. Nwyas i guess you can take this up on any site and let me know about it. I will do the necessary from then on. Wat say?
Hey I agree with you completely...These media people are ready to goto any level to get the TRPs high.
Imagine the media itself reporting on how degraded "the media" has become -- funny and ironical isn't it?? :) But yes, it is definitely desirable that these people set a limit on how low they want to go. So many times the cheapness is so overwhelming that I am forced to switch the channel.
It is absolutely true! Sometimes when a person has died in the family, these reporters stick the microphone in the face of their relatives and ask, 'aapko kaisa lag raha hai?' or 'aapko kya mahsoos ho raha hai?'
Do they expect them to say, 'Bahut maza aa raha hai, hamare (relative) mar gaye.'?
This is absolutely irresponsible journalism. The desperation to get sound bytes from disasters has reached its limits.
@ Prashant:Yes, everything for TRP's man.
@ Veneet: Ya man, it would be cool, if someone did that actually.
@ Narsi: I guess you have said it all. I just feel like beating those journalists, and asking kya mehsoos ho raha hai.
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