“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 .
4 comments:
"slums in India, changing phase of the technology or the youth which are more news worthy than some cricketer having cut his hair," really? o have my own apprehensions bout this...It's easy for you and me to sit here today and talk about what should go into the news. It's a different world out there... one that jas to meet commercial success if one has to continue to exist. There can be no newspaper without the money. The days of Bapuji's harijan are long gone and I really don't see the point in judging the decisions otehr people make because they have to meet several ends and only they know their own demands. Besides, the times of india did give u every other piece of news that is of importance. They can't really be blamed for the positioning. They have to sell... What I'm trying to do is not encourage such practices... That's not my area of interest in any case. My point is that it is upto us to choose what we wanna do and how we'd do it. That is of importance! us talking bout what they have done and what they should do is immaterial...we'd rather talk bout something that can do.
im not talking about times of india only.. ndtv, ibn... all of them were giving a live reporting on that.is that justified.. besides isnt it the news organisations who decide what to show to the readers/audience and what not.
ya that's what i said... what's the use of talkin bout it?? nothings gonna change... u cant blame them for bein the way they r.... u reach THAT posiyion in life and do what they couldn! none of us have any rite to sit here and pass judgements
very thought provokin comments...but just a simple question.have u heard the proverb"actions speaks louder than words"......so stop talkin and act fast......
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