My whole view of the media/NDTV has swayed in the past two days. When you covered the siege live, the stock of media/NDTV touched the peak in my heart. But currently, when you are still blowing a battered boring whistle and coming in the way of National decisions, which is absolutely of no use to the general public, your stock is at an ALL TIME LOW.
I am of the view that the media must SUPPORT the government in its role of governing and should NOT be hounds inspiring every civilian to over throw the government. I found so much of truth and verity in what Dr. Abishek Singhvi just said on the show with Burkha, and Burkha says nothing related to it, hides his point, and says he is the only politician brave enough to meet the public.
Let me convey one thing - While Burkha says we will not let the politicians divide us, she is actually dividing the politicians from the citizens, which is another disaster that could rage a much bigger carnage through our great democracy than any terrorist attack.
BURKHA - PLEASE DO NOT PLAY THE BLIND SHOOTER.
Completely Disgruntled
Not with you at this point of a bigger crisis
Seshasayee Gopi
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Ouch! Those were some heavy statements that you did make there. In defense of the media I would say that as the 4th estate, it should necessarily reflect the views of its public. And from what I understand, the public is very disturbed and are not really in the best of terms with the politicians. Therefore I think it is justified that the media has NOT supported the government atleast in this issue. To cite an example on the contrary : Barkha Dutt did say (abt the fact that Advani, Sonia and Manmohan travelling together) "This is probably a day India would have never seen with the leaders of opposition and the centre travelling together. This is the kind of unity we must express right now." Its not verbatim but the essence of it was the same. Maybe it doesnt make up for the facts that you have so beautifully and explicitly stated, but somewhere the media in general and NDTV in particular did make a teeny weeny bit of effort.
Apart from that lengthy explanation.. the post was really good in terms of clarity of thought and establishing exactly what your take is on the issue.. I am sure there are many people who agree with you..(ahem ahem)
As for Barkha Dutt..she maybe a great journalist n all.. but I really wish that Barkha Dutt would understand that there is more to the news than her!!
Hey Nanditha!
Thanks for sharing your perception. I would also like to comment on the fact that reiterating on every show to the viewers, that Vilasrao Deshmukh had no business taking RGV with him to the Taj Mahal Hotel, defeats the purpose of fighting the Jihadists! We are again landed in one of those infinte internal scuffles again!
Its TV. News. I heard a very smart person once say "If it bleeds it leads". He was talking of news channels. Terror is quite the fodder for the media. And they say what the people want to hear. You can question a lack of ethics but media is money and journalism is most appreciated by the majority when it is sensational. No two ways about it.
There are two phenomena that are often viewed as one -
What is just; and what is perceived as just.
It should be obligatory on the part of the media to lead the masses from what they perceive as just to what is truly just. I can see no contradictions here.
Media have become irresponsible over time. Creating sensations and trigger public emotions seems to be their prime intent rather than getting to the bottom of the issue. I had the opportunity to watch this entire Mumbai episode on a foreign media. The media made it a point to get the opinion from all sides including general public, the commandos, politicians as well as experts from their own country. There were no blame game and whoever was interviewed were allowed to express their opinion. Viewers have a right to get both sides of the view to make a judgement and Barkha should have facilitated that. Getting questions and not letting someone to answer it amounts to job half done. Common man can get carried away by the situation and events happening around. Journalists are expected to be strong and independent and not judgemental. They are expected to be more responsible, especially in a situation like this.
utterly overwhelmed! brilliant piece of text! apt diction and super flamboyant technique.... loved the ending....
and yeah, about the content part, i agree with dia......but just realised that it takes some kind of maturity to understand that journalism is supposed to be least biased and its main role is to report to its people. being judgemental is permissible to some extent....but not at the cost of the unity of the people..atleast not at this critical point in time.
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