Kaisa Mahsoos Ker Rahe Hain ?
The more I watch these news channels (especially the vernacular ones) , the more I get irritated. The above mentioned heading is their favourite punch line these days. They seem to have nothing else to ask or do. Not that they care about what poor victims of their attraction really mahsoos about the whole situation. It's just that they want to make news.
They will pop this question on every possible situation. That day when they jumped the gun and wrongly informed the hapless family members of the truck drivers about their release. They asked the same question. Later when reality dawned upon them that there is no release, they again asked the same question. This was repeated day before yesterday as well. It will be kept on repeating well after the hostage drama ends.
In Cricket when India wins or looses, the captain and Man of the match are asked the same query. The query is repeated for the film stars, before and after release of any film or after winning an award. The common man and not so common man, the Page 3s - who ever they catch hold of is besieged with this idiotic query.
Don't they know the answer? Or are they are finding it difficult to fill 24 hours ? This is the crass journalism which is being dumped on us today. These channels thinks that the audience is fool. For them, this is the concept of 'Breaking News ' which can be fed to the news hungry audience, at the expense of the interviewee. In turn, harassing both the party. They won't even themselves know the depth to which they have fallen for the ugly rat race of this sensationalism.
Sometimes I wonder, our good old Doordarshan was much better version as it merely stated facts. I am seriously planning to unsubscribe the channels like Aaj Tak, Zee news, Star News . I can do with less information but not with miss-information.
They will pop this question on every possible situation. That day when they jumped the gun and wrongly informed the hapless family members of the truck drivers about their release. They asked the same question. Later when reality dawned upon them that there is no release, they again asked the same question. This was repeated day before yesterday as well. It will be kept on repeating well after the hostage drama ends.
In Cricket when India wins or looses, the captain and Man of the match are asked the same query. The query is repeated for the film stars, before and after release of any film or after winning an award. The common man and not so common man, the Page 3s - who ever they catch hold of is besieged with this idiotic query.
Don't they know the answer? Or are they are finding it difficult to fill 24 hours ? This is the crass journalism which is being dumped on us today. These channels thinks that the audience is fool. For them, this is the concept of 'Breaking News ' which can be fed to the news hungry audience, at the expense of the interviewee. In turn, harassing both the party. They won't even themselves know the depth to which they have fallen for the ugly rat race of this sensationalism.
Sometimes I wonder, our good old Doordarshan was much better version as it merely stated facts. I am seriously planning to unsubscribe the channels like Aaj Tak, Zee news, Star News . I can do with less information but not with miss-information.
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