Sex(y) journalism

We all know that nothing sells like sex and probably recent dare bare acts in pop videos and Hindi cinema established this beyond doubt. But should news media also use this formula, if so, then we are surely moving in the wrong direction.

"Shakti Kapoor caught on tape, cries foul."

This is today's front page, bottom half, headline of a newspaper which claims itself as the best in the country. Astonishingly in the same issue news related to a bus accident just manages to get some place on page 3.Well, talk about page 3 journalism (which probably is another waste of newspaper media…hey but the movie was gr8..Get back to topic …anubhav) we soon might have all pages 1,2,3 occupied with stories like these.

This is just not the state of newspapers but all T.V. news channel are replete with such stories. Recall Kareena and her beau Shaheed’s kissing stint which was broadcasted over on electronic media for days, with even the prime time news showing the whole smooch, the D.P.S. scandal which was probably the hot news for more than a month. The list is pretty long and I would have to consider writing another blog If I were to write about all of them.

Danger Ahead: (why do I write this, all the part above this in my blogs are facts and below are my thoughts)

A country with a population running into billions; downtrodden by evils like rapes, kidnapping, political scandals I think that the news media has more important matters to report than the sleazy stuff it is getting into these days. Does this actually refer the mentality of the people this media reaches? Probably they would argue that this is what readers are interested in (dude don’t tell me u were not interested all the above scandals…), but even then the importance given these matters is just too much! Journalism is a very important industry of a country.
What the Indian industry is doing these days is probably not journalism

PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD, PLEASE USE IT JUDICIOUSLY

P.S. hey I forgot write about politically biased nature of Indian news media, if you would have realized some of the T.V. channels or newspapers are more biased towards a particular political party, probably that is even more very dangerous, but then you can expect anything politics.