Is the Media Unchecked.???? Sensationalization of news.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes " . Who will gaurd the gaurdians...!!!

The Indian media which is very much an important factor in our lives today .
But is it worth the reputation it carries....?

I was watching the election results for the UP assembly elections on some News channel over the weekend , and i was really blown over by what these so called gaurdians of the society [ our Indian media was reporting].

The report said that the ananlysis and dissection of the poll results can be easily summarized into who the "different vote banks" voted for this time around.

They had these detailed analysed results of who 'the Dalit's , the muslims and the hindu uppercasts' had voted for.
They also seemed to depict evry thing using these pie charts and diagrams.. and had made up these reports for the different polled areas..

But what surpirsed me was the lengths at which these channels
[ Incidentally all of these channels had the same news item] had gone to diclose to the viewer the result of the so-called secret ballot in the assemly elections.

I was dumbfounded.. they kept on showing more reports of who the brahmins, dalits & muslims vote n why..and why mayawati has been winning etc etc...

Now c'mmon .. the one of most important questions here is , Why have secret ballots in the 1st place.. i mean if ur bent on showing who evry1 votes for.. by demarcating differences as hindus,muslim.. and uppercaste & lowercaste....then we really need to check this unhealthy journalism....becoz its promoting what India has sought to
eradicate for the past 60 years....we've been trying ot remove all this unequality.
I'm not against showing/displaying results based on regions, but why this split based on such a criterion...?

But hell no.... they wont allow it.. just for sake of sensationalizing a news report marked " BREAKING NEWS ", they'll just do about anything ...to get those TRP's.


Then the other day there was this report about Dayanidhi Maran [the cabinet minister]
being asked to resign by the DMK after a show cause notice and then being asked to come back..
There was so much of speculation about what he would do and what would happen to him..etc

and they also mentioned that this was a fight due to differences withing the family n all... an that the fight was between the sons and the cousins.... but that's when u feel, that instead of reporting that there's a fight going on between who's gonna take the chair.. and the very obvious fact that .. Mr. Karunanidhi wanted his son to go places rather than his nephew....that was blatant....

But no the media would'nt dare to uncover such "in-the-face" truths.. all they want to report is on things which would further divide the masses .. by showing who the different sections are voting for... rather than reports of so n so won.. thereby prejudicing their minds.....
Are they scared of being manhandled .. or goons from the politicians ... if they have such news items on theier channel.?

One cannot merely ignore the fact that viewing such reports .. can make significant changes in people's preception of things, without them actually knowing it.

Is it not time time the media practised restraint..and put value into what it is actually reporting....
which again reminds me of the case of Abhishek - Aish marriaga saga....Okay people the world over get married, and many a fan would definitely wanna watch it for sure.. magar bless us.. why do such things make it to the main headlines..."The Breaking News " section...........??

For godsake.. covering such a event is one things .. but doing dumb things and blowing things out of proportions is another .. thats where our media excels...kudos to that...hmmmm..what crap...bah


Get real folks.. and stop acting like the papparazzi.... its irksome to have such a media..which is sensationalizing news ..n creating news instead of just reporting it.

Kab tak jhelna padega ye sab..????

Believe us ,No 1 wants to watch all this junk shit.. n if ur more credible regarding ur reputation..or are as dependable as the fame, it might help in the long run...

tc all...

ciao.....

ps:- do let me know what u think after reading this.this is a real issue of concern.

Why do people blog...??? !!!!

Well i had a lil free time and so was wondering why do people write blogs...

we all have seen the immense crowds of bloggers on the web these days, every 2nd person ho uses the internet is now a blogger,and if u believe in what blog sites are doing to get more people blogging , it'll be like a atleast a blog for a person.... as in for all those who are internet savvy.. or are potential internet users....

hmmmmm ......,

that is like millions of blogs in the blogosphere....i'm already feeling lost...

well may be its all for the better as they say...more blogs ... more focus on issues we can hardly imagine to focus on...and that means ... there's a whole lot more to read than what we could earlier get our hands on....
now that is a cheerful prospect.aint it???

okay now back to square 1..lets analyze the question here..
why do people blog.......??? i guess its because :-

a)people want to vent their inner feelings, frustrations,joy,happiness,doubts and need solace in what others think about their views in general

b)everyone wants to let others know ,that they too can voice their opinions and thereby prove that they've got something inside the topmost anatomical feature of their body..

c)escape being clubbed into the "ignorant masses who dont blog and being considered unaware and internet blind " in the 21st centure ,which is considered to be the digitally aware age.

d)possibly let others read their thoughts and thus gain a reputation for themselves, and get on the fast track wave of getting famous.

it might be also a combination of any one of the above reasons.

well for all those happy go lucky bloggers... it all hardly matters.. and i'd rather say it should'nt...

Ofcourse sometimes we marvel what at mere power wielded by blogs... for example during Operation Iraqi Freedom...there was no iraqi point of view available ..inspite of the hordes of reporters..there was a blog maintained by an iraqi national ..he was happy by the way the war progressed, and provided snaps etc..

that was the first time i thought i'd try myhand at blogging too.. but i see that it hasn't been of much effect though,except for torturing the reader...[:)]

ne ways do let me know your ideas on this topic...please do leave me a comment if u found this good enough...

and believe me i'll enjoy reading it much in the same way u would reading the blog

for now,
ciao.....
tc .............

Memoirs of Wellington

well i dunno how u start writing a blog , coz this is my 1st time, but i'd definitely give it try ,so here goes...

so well i was back in class Xth , at this place called wellington , in ooty, thats in tamilnadu, india, ( for those who good in geoghraphy), so yeah, well we had this really gr8 band of friends, doing evrything from sharing secrets, candies, lunch,gawking at gals,screwing up things & what not. We were 7 frnds all from different parts of the country & all really naive , small guys learning about everything from algebra & nanotech to sex & gals,

So we were this really good bunch of friends, , ahhh i forgot , i'd better name the guys,along with their nick names ( sorry guys dont kill me 4 this ) so there was me pd( parsu), samarendra( sam,) ,shantanu(shantaka),nikhil(nik) ,ankur(bumpy),rakesh( raka,kata murga), yuvraj(chini), ayush(negi)

so we were like sticking around together, going to each other's place at lunch time,buying peppermints daily,
i really wonder now, but our consumption of peppermints was around 2 packets per guy, & imagine each packet having 10 mints, i guess we were immensely responsible for the promotion of that particular commodity there ....,

well any average school day would start with us reaching the school premises, shantanu , raka,nik, negi arriving early , & me , sam , chini , bumpy being late as usual & standing in the offenders line for punishments while, these guys sneered at us ofcourse,and we'd be muttering to ourselves that we'd get back @ them soon, and ofcourse showing them the middle finger....[:)]

so after we had had our round of punishments, either miss a class or stand in the sun, or run around the campus , or worse get ur parents, we'd get back tired & blabber endlessly about , how screwed the school is, & the way it was being run, then before we had our 1st class , it was a routine rite to open one of our lunch packs & devour evrything,
then came the classes, all 4 of them , we use to write down or listen to everything being taught with gr8 lack of interest,( u could make it out by the way guys looked at u) ,then came lunch. the usual hangout time,going to the mini market, which was a place near by, buy loads of goodies...mint and candies for instance...

,& not to forget mints on the top slot,
get back to class, chat abt gals ..if possible doze off.. but to be frank.. the class strenghth was around 30 , plus my seat was among the not so back benchers.. thats bcoz , the rest of group insisted on sitting in back permanently.. os i cud'nt even doze off....anyways my pitiable situation /suffering was soon put to an end as , the bell would ring and we'd have another free period .. notable among them being the games period .. which was an all time favourate...


folks:- i'm in a bit of hurry right now.... will continue with the post when i get more time...
ciao for now.......
tc...