Truth is stranger than fiction

This is the only thing that comes to my mind when I read anything on the Arushi murder case, the investigation has been going on since ages, and now most of us are bored reading about it. Even the television channels are bored reporting the murder investigation. But I do empathize with CBI, all the evidences are gone, Noida police screwed up the case, and the case is not as simple as it looks. All the possible aspects have already been talked about, by the media, but I still believe that the "truth would be stranger than fiction".

Rajkumar, Krsihna, Rajesh Talwar, the suspect list is huge, and it only grows each week. The media is doing every possible act to misguide you on the investigation. Today two different channels reported two different stories:

NDTV reports that Rajesh Talwar is innocent and CBI is going to crack the case in the coming week, Read it here

CNN-IBN on the other hand has just reported whatever we are already aware of, the events in chronological order, and reports nothing as Rajesh Talwar is innocent or not

Somedays back the good for nothing news Channels India TV and Zee News again tried to assassinate the family's character by reporting that the Talwars were partying out in South Delhi when the murder took place. Read it here.

I think these news channels are only bombarding us with data, with no information value attached to it. The other day I was talking to a Retd IPS officer (whom I met somewhere), he was of the opinion that the media can never figure out the way CBI functions, probably there are multiple teams working on totally different aspects and scenarios, each team investigating one suspect seperately. And these news channels find out about some team someday and they report it, the very next week, they try to find out about the investigations of the other team ,and report it again, obviously with the statement "CBI sources say". Can these channels tell us who are these trustworthy sources, I think its high time that Janta demands this piece of information, they are assassinating a family's character. 15 news channels, 15 new theories.

And then this morning I see these set of pictures, I found these very offensive, the girl is gone, SHE IS DEAD, please for God's sake leave her alone, what connection does her childhood photographs have with the case? Why are they out in public ? Please have some moral values and let her soul rest in piece at least for a week ?

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???