“Dhoni sports a new hairstyle”. The fact that this was the news bulletin flashed in all news channels is something to ridicule about. With so many things happening around us and so many more things to focus their attention on all the news channels were talking about was how Dhoni cut his massive lock of hair? Is it of any importance to the public if he cut his hair, kept it long or shaved his head? The news channels can talk the slums in India, changing phase of the technology or the youth which are more news worthy than some cricketer having cut his hair. Even the farmers could be provided with some attention when they are alive rather than just reporting mass farmer suicides. Where is the true blue journalism spirit? One of my lecturers made it a point to stress in class that soft core news or rather entertainment news journalist was not something to desire for after doing a course in journalism in our “esteemed” college. So does reporting Dhoni’s new hair style become a part of hard core journalism? With the advent of 24 hour news channels, news has now become a more of a commercial product to be packaged and sold effectively and raise TRPs of the innumerable 24 hour news channels. Another news which baffled me a few days ago was the coverage of Kareena Kapoor being seen with Saif Ali Khan in a the fashion week. This was covered in the main sheet??? Don’t we have a section called Bangalore Times which deals with entertainment, gossip et all. I am not saying that entertainment news is less news worth, all I am trying to say that it does not fall into the brackets of serious news items and does not deserve to find a place in the main sheet of the newspapers. Journalism has sadly lost its true essence in the might battle of falling and raising TRPs in the world of fast and commercialised news .
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Buh-Bye Billy!
Her smile faded. She saw Billy withering in pain. She wanted to do something but could not take him to the doctor for the fear of being ridiculed. She was helpless, so was he. Two warm tears dropped down from her cheeks. She held Billy in her hand and blew gently to ease his pain. He fell to the ground and was stamped upon by a passer-by before she could do anything. Gentle crying turned into enormous sobs as she realized that Billy was gone for ever. Billy – her pet ant!
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