Friday, February 5, 2010

What is wrong with our MEDIA???!!!

It was around 11 in the morning in Bahrain and I had just started the usual lazy Friday holiday playing around with my little son and wife!!! I was embarrassed, embarrassed because I had thought that the First Test Match between India and South Africa was supposed to start on Friday. Actually it was supposed to start a day later. I was embarrassed that I had got up at 6:30 to watch the match only to find out that there was no such match. Well, as usual I started following news on NDTV.

Rahul Gandhi was supposed to visit Mumbai for engagements which seemed not to important. But due to the statements that he had made a few days earlier about Marathi-Non Marathi, Shiv Sena (the self propagated savior of marathi maanoos) had made it a point to draw mileage from this unimportant visit. It is quite disgusting that we spend so much of our valuable time following such unimportant people like Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena and their useless, mindless activities. The national media sell them like hot cakes, and we buy them with the same excitement.

Whats wrong with all of us??? Why does no one talk about price rise, why does no one talk about hunger and poverty, why does no one talk about unemployment, why does no one talk about scarcity of water, food management, absence of a health care system for Indians???

We are just obsessed about non issues, complete non issues. We follow SRK comments, we follow Shiv Sena comments, we follow IPL snub of Pakistan players (the world hasn't fallen down for them or for us by the auction).

There is something very wrong with our mindset. Media does not help too!!! In India everything has become a paparazzi, there is no distinction between serious news and paparazzi, actually there is no serious news. Imagine a government which won general election even after 5 years of non action. And am sure they might repeat that again in 4 years time.

Nations are made by people and their thinking. Media helps the people build their opinions. Alas, our media is failing BIG time in that.

I would like to end it by mentioning a breaking news which was flashing on NDTV which said that Rahul Gandhi had visited some ATM. Big deal!!! Why did they not mention the amount he withdrew??? India was longing to know that too!!!

As I end, Star News is showing images of Maharastra Minister or someone important in Govt. to have picked up Rahul Gandhi's shoe, joota, chappal or whatever he was wearing!!!

DISGUSTING PEOPLE, DISGUSTING ACTIONS AND EQUALLY DISGUSTING MEDIA!!!

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