The 24 hr Breaking News culture has really made a mess of broadcasting and made people whom nobody knew and doesn't want to know famous. How many of us knew one Mr Muthalik before the uninterrupted broadcast by the TV Channels and all willing to take credit for the action the cops took. Rarely any one knew him and his goondas in the garb of Ram Sainiks till a fortnight ago. Muthalik was an unknown identity before his gang of goons beat up girls in a pub in Mangalore. Muthalik himself had not dreamt of so much publicity and his objective of doing what he did was successful. There are now thousands of people on various blogs(including me) , pink chadi groups on facebook making him famous every day.He is basking in his new found glory.
Who will forget more than 50hrs of direct broadcast of Prince falling in a 60 feet pit. There was two day broadcast of Kareena kissing Saif in a restaurant or Nithari or Arushi cases. The bundles of currency notes in Parliament,our respectable parliamentarians throwing mikes and all this is such a humiliation and mockery of our great democracy. There are thousands of such negative issues which should not have been on TV or newspaper. The commercial compulsions have made them forget the basic values of good journalism. The newspapers carry so much of absurd news that it becomes a challenge to start your day positively. I prefer to call it a media scandal. The coverage of these events has a controversial effect on our society and culture.
Though regulation is not the solution but the broadcasters need to be counseled and motivated to highlight positives about our country or the world. I think the good old days of Doordarshan is better when there were no Breaking News culture and News was News and not Tamasha.
Who will forget more than 50hrs of direct broadcast of Prince falling in a 60 feet pit. There was two day broadcast of Kareena kissing Saif in a restaurant or Nithari or Arushi cases. The bundles of currency notes in Parliament,our respectable parliamentarians throwing mikes and all this is such a humiliation and mockery of our great democracy. There are thousands of such negative issues which should not have been on TV or newspaper. The commercial compulsions have made them forget the basic values of good journalism. The newspapers carry so much of absurd news that it becomes a challenge to start your day positively. I prefer to call it a media scandal. The coverage of these events has a controversial effect on our society and culture.
Though regulation is not the solution but the broadcasters need to be counseled and motivated to highlight positives about our country or the world. I think the good old days of Doordarshan is better when there were no Breaking News culture and News was News and not Tamasha.
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