RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM or SENSATIONALISM
I have stopped reading newspapers in as much detail as I used to earlier and I have completely stopped watching news channels on TV. What is reported is not news – in the print media what you read is sensationalism in the garb of ‘news’ – on TV it is more about TRP and advertising revenue – with 3-4 day old news still being shown as ‘breaking new’!! You open any newspaper it will have news of some scam or the other, rape, murder, land grab, corruption in the local body, suicide, police high handedness, etc – day in day out it is the same with a different set of characters! Good news is hardly ever published. There is plenty of good work being done by unknown local people in the interiors of the country, selflessly and without expectation, but this is not newsworthy as it does not SELL! Take a case In point – the current news being flogged to death – MS Dhoni and conflict of interest via his business connections. He is a director in 12 companies shout the headlines! Most of these c...