It just gets worse from bad. As it is my aversion to media is increasing, every now and then something just accelerates the process. Consider this :
1) Times of India : Carries photograph(s) of a young lady stabbed 20 times by a jilted lover. Full glaring photograph where the lady is bleeding profusely and wears that painful and bewildered look, staring into the camera, asking would you please see that I need help and not a flash of the flash in my eyes. Further shameful is the fact that the photo also shows a group of onlookers who are doing everything except for helping the lady and watching a tamasha. Fuck you guys. Fuck you for carrying the photos. And fuck all those spineless bastards who did nothing. And god help the mental faculties of the photographer.
2) Morning telecast of the news channels. Every channel would carry "how would your day be", particularly the Hindi channels.
3) Another one, this time IBN7 :
Headline one "Biwi kee zid"
Headline two "Yeh kaisi shaadi"
Headline three "Ek anokha rishta".
Thanks but no thanks.
Some of us may argue for the freedom of expression. I'd not argue on that front. As a soul who's not numb yet and would not prefer being dished out crap.
My only reaction to all this action is that its adieu to Times of India. Good bye to all Hindi news channels (particularly IndiaTV). It may not be the demise of responsible journalism yet (with the likes of Hindu and Express still doing their bit) but it still is a sorry reflection of the fact that news is saleable and it sells when it is the worst.
2 comments:
Tell me one thing ? What is it that you're doing to curb the neediness of the repressed classes other than cribbing on this blog ?
You decry the failing standards of media and yet you seem to quite a lot of them. Is it some kind of moral dilemma you feel everytime you actually enjoy these things ?
And also Indian Express is a sorry excuse for middle class conservatism. Free speech it is not
Nothing. Just another round of intellectual masturbation. Maybe should have added to that label also. There is no moral dillema and or hypocrisy of actually liking what i've decried. I admit even Express is also a victim to sensationalism but it is still not a tabloid like TOI.
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