Nov 2, 2008

Shame on contents of Indian news media

While all the TV channels in India been dedicating at least a 30 minutes a day (leaving out repetitions) to detail the pre-election scenarios, Presidential candidates, day to day activities of the American elections, they hardly have any time to conveniently, constructively discuss on terrorism in India. I watched the 'Versus - Debate on Provocation' on Times Now. There is no better example of how the media can play around with what point-of-view they choose to tell people. They also very deftly manage to control who, which leader of which party gets the complete uninterrupted time to speak out their views. I haven't ever seen either Jayanthi Natarajan, Mani Shankar Aiyer or Kapil Sibal ever being interrupted repeatedly by the assumed-supreme-court-judge-of-India Mr Arnab. But a Shiv Sena, BSP or BJP will neither get their share of time nor their time to react to points made by the congress goons. Great Indian TV 'UnBiased' Channels (everyone know who controls their finances.)

These media people have started to give their last says (decisions) on various events which are still pending in courts. Even before any proof gets out of the investigative departments, the channels air their decisions already. And to their support they bring in leaders from the ruling party, usually a strong orator versus a weak one from opposition party. This balancing is manipulated well to give public a inference as suited to the channel.

When Jayanthi says 'Shut up' to Arnab, he does just that like a tamed dog. But when Mr Rudy of BJP starts out to counter or makes his point, Arnab doesn't let him complete. He is either made to cut short, or his voice be made unheard under shouts of other people in debate or Arnab's barking (literally he does that.)

ALL DEBATES ON ALL OUR CHANNELS THAT IS SET TO BE WITHIN A HALF HOUR SLOT OR LESSER IS SIMPLY A WASTE OF OUR MONEY AND TIME (We the citizens of India pay for the Ads indirectly and wait for the show to start/continue watching those Ads invariably.)

Can't any of these channels give away a entire day to discuss on most critical issues of our country? WITH NO ADS, NO BREAKS, NO INTERRUPTIONS? What is more important for them than providing such an opportunity for all the leaders to discuss with people across the country? Let every citizen of India learn the facts of these issues. Let every leader be given equal and sufficient space to put their points across WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS by idiots like Arnab.

TV SERIALS, PAPARAZZIS, COPYING AMERICAN AND BRITISH SERIALS, SOAPS, AMITABH'S PEEING, AISH'S VOMITING HAS BECOME MORE CRUCIAL FOR CHANNELS THAN GIVING IMPORTANCE TO NATIONAL ISSUES LIKE TERRORISM. THIS IS WHAT THE 'PATRIOTS' IN THE NEWS MEDIA ARE UPTO TODAY.

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