NEWS AHOY!!!!

Do you remember the days when we dint have so many news channels? We had the one and only one Doordarshan news. This was available in both Hindi and English. As for the international news, we had good old Pranoy Roy hosting "The world this week" on Fridays.

But now, I hate to even accidentally land on any news channel while surfing. Practically every news channel is dishing out some trash or the other. I somehow feel that these media personnel are so full of themselves these days, that they can go any length to get that coveted big story. One of the worst lines "You saw it first on ... TV". It doesn't matter what has happened, whether my neighbors cat  farted, whether its a natural calamity, whether its a terrorist attack, no matter what it is, the most important thing is, "You saw it first on ... TV". What's with these media folks???

This seems to be the case everywhere. For some stupid TRP ratings, the media streams painful images repeatedly. The case I am referring to being the tapes of the Virginia Tech student who went on that inhuman massacre. Then there was Anna Nicole Smiths death and the subsequent custody battle that her boyfriend was battling out against some lawyer for her child. One news channel was almost dedicated to covering her. For Gods sake, she was a drug addict and an adult movie actress. By providing her a non stop obituary, the media is doing nothing but glorifying her acts and her life!!! Is this right??? How does the impressionable teenage mind react to this kind of news? Is the media aware of the repercussions of its news hunt? Who cares, the TRP's and the increasing bottom lines due to the increase in advertising are more important.

 The media which is supposed to be the watch dog, has gradually become a monster out on hunt. Preying upon anything and everything which would give them something to talk about.

Another example, Adnan from Mumbai, the financial capital of India, was murdered by a bunch of idiotic guys. The reason, they had kidnapped him and asked for ransom, but due to incessant media coverage the kidnappers got scared, they killed Adnan. If the media had not been so ruthless in its coverage, maybe the Police could have got him back safe.

I wish the media regulates itself. There is no point in bringing a legislation to regulate the media.