CNN-IBN reported today that Rahul Baba suffered a sprain in his leg.
And that should be a matter of concern for me and you because ?
Well because we are all his subjects. He is the prince of the Monarchy called India. And we the lesser mortals need to keep updated about his day to day health. So if his tender body is affected by lets say a mishap as BIG as spraining of leg, it's IBN-CNN's duty to report. Off course IBN-CNN being the news agency of international standards and also it is apparently secular,liberal and progressive, needs to report all this.And that makes it doubly important to read and follow.
I remember during college days there used to be a small local daily called "Ekya" which routinely splashed such BIG news items on the front page. Like a neighbour's girl seducing the father's boy or two police men taking bribe. These news items would be splashed on front page with so much ado, so as to seek bystander's attention. We used to make fun on those news paper's and were very proud of ourselves for reading Times of India. [We as in college going young under-grads]
Not sure if we were priding ourselves with the right thing. Times Of India and now IBN-CNN don't seem to be too far away from Ekya, do they?
4 comments:
Good blogs dude...you should keep writing...
Thanks buddy...
i have been cramped.. ever since austin started :)
"Yellow journalism" is the term buddy! TOI was recently given a clean chit by the Supreme Court which in all its magnificient jurisprudence ruled that the TOI contained material relevant to young kids as well as grown-up adults. So the sex and sleaze was considered fine. Concerned readers were advised to look for other alternatives. I wonder how then are TV channels being proscribed for airing Adult content.
@ayonam : point taken.
I believe, one of the reasons why Journalism in India is so tilted towards the left is because most neo-cons or right-wingers graviated towards science and technology and not so much arts/literature/journalism.
I had read an excellent article by a guy called Raman Kapoor, who did a lot of research on why the Hindu middle class does not find a voice in mainstream media.
He made some excellent points, i will fwd you that if i come across that link.
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