Which Media Channel is
Right in Andhra Pradesh
I am not given for Tweets and blogs in the due
course of maintaining social networks. Rather, I maintain consistent reticence
in other social networking sites like Face Book which I have been using to
share my photos and fun stuff though. I have enjoyed an academic sojourn for a
month and started killing time by reading as many News papers as possible and
astonished to reckon that papers have stopped giving news and extending their
tentacles to bolster the politicians of their own franchise. Then, I have
started scrolling the TV news channels which have travelled far ahead of news
papers in bristling the concealed emotions like caste, region, religion and
what not. So, I thought of using Social
Network sites to blow out my feelings and to caution my young students whose vulnerable
sentiments are culminated by the selfish entrepreneurs running the media
houses. Social network is perhaps rational to an extent, that it does not have
editors to curtail my writings nor filters the replies I receive.
Friends, gone are the days when media was
approbated with the status of a Fourth Estate and now very much replicating a
Fifth Column that undermines the eventual benefits sought by the society. One
of the media houses being run in one particular region has been imposing a depreciatory
stereotype on another region and trying its level best to widen the rifts
existing among the people. Another media house has been granting Yellow confetti
showers only and only on one political party right from its incarnation what so
ever is the reason. An another media house has tried to make mountains out of
molehills by telecasting the pornographic videos in the name of scandals and
completely overshot the doctrine of private life behind the veils of TRP
ratings. These unscrupulous papers and channels have initiated a new business
of converting opinions into news and requirements of sponsored politicians into
investigative journalism. So, my dear young students, beware of the analysis
and reports generated by the media. I do not advocate you not read news papers
or not to watch news channels. But use them only to procure information or news
and try to understand the nuance of the analysis and reports which are biased
and vested with ephemeral gratifications of few media entrepreneurs.