I still remember news when it was unbiased, just dished out as it should have been; crisp, true and to the point. It used to come at 8pm for one hour and everything was covered in it, be it national or international news, business, politics, entertainment or sports. The news readers were unglamorous, unpretentious people who didn’t have a cleavage showing wardrobe nor a flare for the ‘yo’ language as I call it.
And here we are today with atleast 8 full time, 24 hour news channels that I can remember at the drop of a hat all dishing out the same old news every 15 minutes. The same news shown at 8am is anyway shown at 8pm too. So what is this whole frenzy for having so many news channels all of a sudden? Is it that lucrative and profitable or is that we believe that today in this high speed world, it becomes essential to bring in news and details to viewers as these incidents happen. I think it is a bit of both, and none of them as well. They do hold good but in reality it is the viewers fault. Today the viewer believes that he is educated and believes that today it is his right to a choice. This is what drives news channels like many other things, things so many that counting them itself could take years. Not to deviate from the topic but that is where the actual harm is, not that we have choice but that we have too much choice, not that we have too much choice but that we all believe that we are smart enough to make a decision – this is what so many news channels thrive on. Today news pays, its more a business model than anything else. We live in a world which has always believed that information is key and today we take that in the literal sense.
I keep hearing the term sensationalism as of late and have found myself also using the term a few times. Today we all believe and accept that all the news channels try to bring news to my doorstep by sensationalizing it. I suddenly release that news itself I have grown immune to. It has become so meaningless that today not even half of what is announced registers in my mind even if the television set is on.
I do know that change is the only constant but over doing anything is indeed bad. I keep wondering… are todays news readers one of the most depressed bunches in existence? I do not say that they are crappy or not good at what they do, they I think do a wonderful job actually. But I still do pose that question at those times in nature when I do. Today I see so much negativity in news, its always more than half filled with death and destruction, harm and malice. I just be a little sensitive but its really a put off. I really could do with a dose of good news – don tell me what wrong with the world, please also tell me whats right in the world. If you can do that, I think news channels will be a boon to society at large itself. How or why I think so, it’s a little too late in the night to type out today, might put in my thoughts on it if I’m not too lazy or non inclined to writing about it.
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