They should have a responsibility to truth, shouldn't they?but the one good thing abt this is that hushing up something is not going to be soe asy...at least it will come out...and i think that;s important...
Anonymous
· 4 years ago
a country wide dumbing down but as you said the option is not to watch. austere
Prerona
· 4 years ago
dont agree with austere, in the end and to some extent it will come to you its more like a puch tech thing than a pull, isnt it?
Ash
· 4 years ago
Very well said, Manu. The news is full of negativity, and they really have lost all sense of perspective. The smallest of crimes makes headline news ! And they rarely ever talk about goo, positive incidents.
For e.g for the Ganguly issue, they're forever showing idiotic fans, and numerous politicians and filmstars and what not talking about how the decision is unfair etc. Do you ever get to hear people in support of kicking Ganguly off the team ? Hmpf !
Anjali
· 4 years ago
Well said. I don't buy the argument that 'if that's what people want that's what we must give them'. There are no boundaries at all to what people may want. But the media itself is composed of the same people ... they are not a separate tribe with separate values, and why should we expect that they would want anything different from the people they are catering to? If media shapes public opinion, the public shapes media opinion too.
Pallavi
· 4 years ago
i agree with you there Manus.. SIGH nowadyas.. sensationalism is the key word...
Stone
· 4 years ago
Something similar here..http://badmantalking.blogspot.com/2005/01/yellow-journalism.html
and here..http://badmantalking.blogspot.com/2005/06/lets-talk-about-news.html
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austere
The news is full of negativity, and they really have lost all sense of perspective. The smallest of crimes makes headline news ! And they rarely ever talk about goo, positive incidents.
For e.g for the Ganguly issue, they're forever showing idiotic fans, and numerous politicians and filmstars and what not talking about how the decision is unfair etc. Do you ever get to hear people in support of kicking Ganguly off the team ? Hmpf !
But the media itself is composed of the same people ... they are not a separate tribe with separate values, and why should we expect that they would want anything different from the people they are catering to? If media shapes public opinion, the public shapes media opinion too.
and here..http://badmantalking.blogspot.com/2005/06/lets-talk-about-news.html