Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The new 'low' in journalism

It is reprehensible when those who pick a career in Journalism resort to cheap and shoddy tactics to disallow representatives from making their point. I stongly believe that if a Journalist has an opinion and bias they make it well known. It is disgusting when those who claim to be neutral act in obvious ways to showcase their bias by screaming, yelling and interfering with those who relay their views that disagree with a journalist's perspective. Speaking in a condescending manner and muting off people or shamelessly interfering when they talk is nothing but desperately biased journalism. Their job is to play it fair, "interview" people and showcase the facts thereby allowing the people to decide for themselves without trying to influence or impose upon people by being in their face and sensationalizing everything. There has to an accountability standard. Such sad state of affairs indeed!

Saturday, October 13, 2012

The dearth of morality....

It is indeed extremely painful to learn one after the other incidents of prevailance of the culture of corruption in India. It is unbearably sad and painful and frustrating when you see those who are elected to the public office shamelessly engage in acts of fraud and corruption themselves. If this is the new standard that many of the politician masked goons hold for themselves, it may not be long before people take the law in their own hands to straighten things out for themselves - for the speed of our judiciary needs some serious introspection also.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Indian media's role in covering the 11/26 Mumbai Terror Attack

The reckless, irresponsible, and abhorrent behavior showcased by our news channels is completely unacceptable. It is difficult to fathom the shamless and totally preposterous way in which the media has gone about its coverage of the Kargil conflict and lately the Mumbai attacks.

We the people must demand for some tough action from these accountability devoid and reckless idiots for exploiting people, and playing with their emotions in their zealous quest for stardom and TRPs at the expense of compromising our national security.

With the media being heavily inspired by our politicians’ my way or the highway philosophy, it is time we muster up courage to defeat the scourge of greed and selfishness. NDTV and Burkha Dutt must apologize not only to the likes of Chetan Kunte and Admiral Suresh Mehta, but to the entire nation for their utter disregard for human life in their continued attempts to sensationalize and leak information that hampered the rescue efforts.