The reason to start my own blog came from two sources besides, of course that people don't listen to my brilliant ideas :) I'm kidding.
a) I have got disillusioned with the media in India. Most journalists can be grouped into categories lazy or shit stirrers. First the Lazy Journalists are the ones who are fed information by PR agencies a.k.a Bollywood movies etc and they feed this to us. Adding insult to injury they say this is what Indians want. In a population of 1 billion plus and out of so many issues all Indians want to know is how a movie was made and who is in it. Really!!! And Shit Stirrer Journalists are those who believe everyone is out to insult India and this is a quick way of becoming famous and gaining readership/viewership. I don't plan on changing this and nor can I. But I can point it out and have fun.
b) I wanted to record my thoughts as things change around me.
This blog is going to be quite random and may include posting on varied things from current events, travel, adventure, sports, work and life in general.
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An Interesting perspective !! Having said that and being from the media industry myself, i agree with you to some extent but not entirely !!
ReplyDeleteYes, Bollywood is acquiring a prominent place in the News Genre(it horrifies me too ...Agreed Bollywood is trying to corporatize itself ...but why through news channels ????).
Well it's not them saying that it's what Indians want ...it's true viewership for those programms are high !!!I guess the viewer is confused what content and where is he watching that content.
I guess it's not the journalist at fault here but it is the programming that is to be blamed
Didn't quite get the shit Stirrer journalist part ..
But what i do feel strongly about is
1) Sensationalization of News
2) Literally every peice of news is Breaking News
3) Irresponsible Journalism - eg. coverage of 26/11
Somebody needs to Change this !!!!!