Media, whether electronic or print, seems to be a better source of entertainment in an era where one has to pay heavy bucks to watch movies which are more like old wine in a new bottle and surfing entertainment channels makes one wonder why Ekta Kapoor doesn’t start her own TV channel rather than competing her own soaps, simultaneously, on different channels. .. I won’t be surprised to watch KNEWS - produced and directed by Balaji telefilms- soon being aired at peak hours on NEWS channels too... The possibility is high when media is obsessed with presenting NEWS with high entertainment indices only... and a channel called India TV has left no stone unturned to keep someone new to an idiot box entertainment guessing which category does the channel belong – although they remind their viewers after every minute of being a news channel – for everything shown is a news pehli bar India TV par... No one can break India TV Breaking News – when all other reporters are busy questioning PM or HM related to something shaking the Nation, India TV reporters are busy looking for exorcists, Ghosts, and the Cows that India TV cameras captured being taken away by aliens... Well others are also not far behind... the competition is growing at an alarming pace. In times when NEWS is nothing but a biased reporting of channel or print media owners’ interests or ideology, channels like India TV is following the former and the rest later... Well versed knowledge surely comes from reading, watching and analysis but on a serious note, let us also understand that a human brain takes the privilege of borrowing thoughts and ideologies presented, framed or narrated well...
News on Doordarshan in my home town, which is aired once in a day, has been the all time favourite for the elders at home... The news is read in two languages and people seem to be more than interested in knowing how the same news sounds in the other language also... This news also makes me feel proud of my ethnicity... of doing more than one activity at a time... my mother offering prayers, with radio or TV on, and to my surprise she doesn’t miss anything reported... Don’t ask me how important the news is... they can very well present something recorded last year as a daily news and people will still show same enthusiasm ... only thing they do is play with numbers... and my sister intelligently used to make best use of this... she would make her own news and narrate it well with a sophistication when asked by someone, going out for some unavoidable reason, to listen for the same... The reason to go out would surely be unavoidable... Attendance in local Masjid also used to be low in the evening bcoz the timings clashed with news... I don’t know if it still remains so... neither could I understand the reason for this news obsession... People seem to be more interested in, what India TV calls, Sansani... People have found a new entertainment... something that used to give Goosebumps to our elders.
When media itself comes in news, the best weapon to be used is freedom of speech... and that makes a pen more powerful than a sword. Offence is a best defence and who else knows this better than media... You can write anything... only condition being it shouldn’t offend media or a writer... My Professor says, education is the ability to listen to almost anything without loosing temper or your self confidence... although this applies to me only, for nobody is going to question the Prof’s credibility when he looses his temper on anything I say... Freedom of speech is not an absolute right is all I need to understand here... Everything doesn’t apply to everyone, we shouldn’t forget... Might is always right!!!
well give me sometime to comment on it.....but its interesting...
ReplyDeleteI agree that Freedom of Speech should not be absolute, but I believe that the Right to Offend should be absolute. Too often today we get suppress free speech when threatened by religious idiots.
ReplyDeletewow.....finally these K serials compelled you to write.they're like 'hate to love n love to hate' things,but whoever watches that nonsense stuff complains about them being nonsense but at the same time cant miss a single episode.this nonsense has so much impact on people that they take to streets if their fav character dies (which as as matter of fact never does n keeps coming back in every possible form)while it takes Amir khan to make movies like rang de basanti to make people protest (still silent ones with the candles)against the killing of innocent. this is Indian society but on the other side it shows their emotional vulnerability, where saas fights bahu but still calls her bahu rani n she returns it with sasu ma. in this part of world it sounds absured that children live with their parents even aftre getting married while there its but natural.
ReplyDeletefor kashmir, its kind of a completely differnt world.that DD news is like a meal which no kashmiri (obviously elders) in his complete senses can ever miss.its isnt about what is happening around but its just a custom to hear whatver they say.this made my role easy as conveying the newws to people who missed it due to some unavoidable reasons,for i could cook possibly anything and feed them to their entire satisfaction. i miss all that and the warmth of those relations about which we at times complain of being too interfering but cherish them every now n then.I thank Allah first for making me a muslim and then a kashmiri for the values,emotions n feelings it brought with it are rare and priceless.
@Amit.. true but we also get offended when these so called religious guys say anything they feel like.. Right to feel offended and right to offend
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ReplyDeleteRight to offend - I don't get offended when they something that I disagree with. I get offended when they say something that contradicts the law, or is stupid (and it generally both). And mostly I get offended when anyone says something stupid.