There is a sense within about today’s television media that
it has failed me and I am sure many of you won’t mind sharing the same feeling.
While print and social counterparts are little better off, people have vented
about the TV channels earlier and I am joining the chorus.
Having worked in technical field for quite some time now,
while I can appreciate the technological advancement and usage, the thing that
cuts me off is the degree of loudness and garishness with which today’s TV
media portrays each and everything in their myopic way – defined oddly by their
own cut-piece manner. I have observed that in almost all the time, only a suitable
portion of the fact is lifted out of context to create a sensation, to attract
people in brazen violence of ethics. Today’s
news is all about creating a sensation and drama rather than facts.
Where is that media that compels you towards holistic
thinking, soothes you with thoughtful discourses or enlightens you with
strategic directions, puts facts with responsibility and accountability? There
is no respect for anyone and privacy of anyone and it is dog eats dog in all
the channels you name it.
The things that I miss most are the poise and subtlety in
today’s media coverage and get completely cowed down by the onslaught of audio
and video bytes – high pitched and heavily colored to say the least. I am lost
and bogged down by the insensitive nature of it with a deep sense of pain and
deprivation about the things that should be just for you. In today’s heavily
loaded media circus, sound and video are targeted towards common people as
canon fodders to push through data and caricatured actions bereft of any
sensitivity and considerate approach. I feel suffocated and punctured from all
sides under this juggernaut. Today’s media is temper provoking rather thought
provoking and more busy in putting
people face to face and creating a drama on the screen. The way programs are anchored or queries are
thrown- it reveals the basic intention of not having a meaningful discussion
but rather to create a fracas of words. The brawls generally end up getting harsh
words exchanged coupled with blame game and passing the buck. And all of it
starts from the word go.
Some of the anchors- with an attitude of they know best and
savior of our country, do not even allow participants to express their views in
a gentlemanly way putting words in their mouth and in turn successful in
creating the drama.
Still remember the early days of media revolution of India
with NDTV and Dr. Pranoy Roy and his bandwagon e.g. Rajdeep and few others ushering
the new dawn. Barring a few of these old timers, today’s media is hooligan like
and all about creating high pitched drama and sensations. If this is the fall
out of imitating western world, people should better watch BBC and CNN – the sober
and somber ones held at high pedestal of journalism even in today and clearly
stand out from the rest.
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