Indian Media - A Joke
Ever since I have started reading newspapers I have felt that Indian Media is nothing but a bunch of idiots thinking that the whole of India is filled with idiots like them. I mean I have read many of these articles that they write but most of them were purely based on idiotic conclusions that they came from asking some idiotic questions. I am really tired of them writing such articles in papers that not only is read here but also is read by many people across the world just to see how backward India actually is.
Indian media are just some news hungry people who are like magicians and can make doves out of thin air. They are also like those poets who live for exaggeration of the beauty but media people exaggerate the news. I really believe that it is not only Indian media that is like that but most of the media all over the world might be like this but Indian media definitely can make India look bad.
Indian News Media is a very powerful medium as it caters to the second largest populated country in the world. They are known to make a mountain out of a mole. There are many times when we, like normal Indians, feel that our country is being put to shame by the Indian News Media.
When a kid falls into an open well all of the news channels in India were standing on top of it, when the kid did come out they asked him was he scared inside the pit. That question did prove how idiotic Indian News Media can be. But I am not blaming them for that. There have been many instances where we have seen such kind of a thing happening. When recently Richard Gere kissed Shilpa Shetty on cheeks and mid you it was cheek, Indian Media wasn’t far behind to blow the thing out of proportion. Indian Media actually added fuel to the fire burning in the hearts of many of the “conservative” Indians. Those Indians had got an agenda to fight for at last. They were able to blow the thing out of proportion and even were able to register a case against them in a court were it was considered to be an erotic act in public. If kissing on cheeks in public is anywhere erotic then these people should stop marriages in India as that creates in many more erotic acts though not in public but at least that is much more erotic that this. They should also put all the married couples in jail just because they have a relationship. When everyone is coming to a new age Indian Media is helping the conservatives to get their way in India. By blowing this out of proportion India has been put in lines with conservative countries. Now all the media all over the world are happy to call India a third world country because such acts would have never taken place in any other country. That kiss should have been part of gossip mongers chat rather than that of a judicial court case. They even had a case for Hrithik and Aishwarya Rai(oops.. Bachan) kiss scene. I can say that scene was the worst kiss scene I had seen in my whole life and whoever found it indecent or erotic can be labelled as a pervert.
Now the thing that really ticked me off into writing this post is this article. The problem with this article is serious lack of information on part of the person who had written the article. The article starts with that journalist telling about a girl who had the problem of putting her pictures on net as it is a public domain. He never explained that sites like flickr have feature that allow people to keep their photos private but the journalist said that it was the problem of photo sharing sites. Later he alleges that Hackers and Phreakers, get into people computers and even relationships(which is definitely weird). Well, what he meant was that people use the photos on net to Photoshop them into something else. But the weird part is that he used Phreakers. I actually had no idea what a Phreaker is until my friend Harsh who told me about this article, told me that phreakers are a non existent type of hackers who hacked into phone systems. I was really feeling stupid, not because I didn’t know the meaning but that we as readers have nearly no knowledge and we read such things that gives us wrong information. In our schools teachers use to say that newspapers are the best source of English and that we can learn good English by reading a good English newspaper. The Hindu is definitely a very good English newspaper that is why I had never expected this on part of the paper. These are some little flaws in the news media that mislead common people who depend on them for news.
It’s not that I have any kind of personal grudge against any news channel or newspaper but unfortunately this is our current plight. I know that there are great journalists out there who care for a real story and rather than the spicy things wanted by the News Media Giants. I have nothing against the journalists proffession so don’t flame here for that. These are just my views and I will like contrasting comments but not flame comments.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
You’ve ranted, friend, you’ve ranted. You could have gotten your point across with fewer repetitions. Though I agree with you in spirit. I’ve reduced my newspaper reading down to the comic strip and the celebrity gossip pages. Atleast you can clearly disbelieve what they write about movie stars without any qualms about the fact that they might(for a change) be writing the truth! As to the Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty thingy, How ridiculous can people be?! It was ridiculous to the point of being laughable to the point of hysterics.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I ranted because we Indians are being shown as some conservative backwards country in front of the whole world and also when people get it wrong about computers and net, that really ticks me off.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I agree with you on this, India media is full of bullshit specially channels such aaj tak and star news which are nothing but a farce.
Atleast few channels like ndtv and cnn ibn are worth watching
May 28th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
A slightly different take on this issue, but hopefully it will resonate with some of you:
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/05/28/the-great-joke-that-is-indian-media/