Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Yellow Journalism....

Finally CNN-IBN has also resorted to all kinds of yellow journalism, the latest Blog by their "star"reporter Sagarika Ghose (here) she has gone to the extent of genralizing that it is only Muslims who are getting punishments these days. Well according to me there is a way of visualizing the things that are happening in and around you. If a channel like CNN-IBN goes to the extent of saying that "Soon India's jails will be choc-a-block with Muslims." this can have serious effects on the society, whatever you are airing on the channel or writing on your website , affects ppeople in some or the other way.

A section of the Indian society might go to the extent of thinking that it is only our community that is being targeted by these judges and judiciary, but this is actually not the case, everybody who is guilty should be punished, and that guilty can be a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian. Somewhat media is not playing the role it should play in today's time.

There is no point talking about the news channels like Zee news, Star News or even Aaj Tak for that matter, the level of news has gone so down that its practically like watching a "C" grade Bollywood movie (something like daaku Hasina ;-)). Now considering the type of news we get on channels like CNN-IBN, well I think they started off well but lately they have become the self proclaimed channel for giving verdicts, a news channel should only report news and not give its own opinion, or even if they are giving their own opinion, why are the opinions biased in case of the political party sitting in the center. They create a news and then they end up spending hours discussing about that news in the name of "Janta's Polls"

Its high time that these channels analyze themselves instead of airing advertisements like "awarded the best news channel of 2006" by the way who gives these awards, some organization like Filmfare, where Dharmendra never got a best actor award???

6 comments:

Phoenix said...

There really shd be a code of condutc for media...it;s disgusting truly

Shantanu said...

@Pheonix
Yes indeed, they are taking all sort of liberties....

Metallica bhakt! said...

While working with a newspaper,I seen this happening right in front of my eyes!Yellow Journalism does prevail!and then you have some newspapers siding some particular party and making it pretty evident..these days Journalism is a form of commercial activity!it lacks ethics!!its as if being biased is in vogue

Shantanu said...

@metallica Bhakt!

Right said! :)

Taste-Bud said...

Agree. I had similar sentiments: http://frostedglass.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/the-business-of-truth-yellow-journalism-and-aaj-tak/

Shantanu said...

@Debdatta
Thanks for visiting my blog!
I read your post, very true!