The Mad TRP Rush
All that the news channels in India are concerned about are their TRPs. They seem to care the least whether they show something which can be called 'News' or just any kitsch. And in the course of it they have started sensationalising any Tom, Dick and Harry's life and showing it with sound and light effects to make it appear like a movie or a soap opera.
Take the case of this Patna professor who was supposedly having an affair with a JNU student. The professor's wife went to the police and registered a complaint against him alleging that he was making obscene CDs. The professor's face was blackened and that provided a juicy footage for the channels to hook audience. But it has not been proved that he was making CDs or he had any such intentions. He was having an extra-marital affair which is not a crime and his wife wanted to get him punished for betraying her so she made up this case.
I fail to understand how mature and seasoned journalists can allow such slip shod material to be aired. If the professor had actually been making CDs then it would have been a matter of public concern. But no such thing has yet been proved. So much hype was given to the whole issue that half-hour programmes were aired on it and live chats were done on the issue.
What should we understand by such sub-standard material that the audience is being served? Is it that reporters have no news sense whatsoever? Is it that the reporters are lazy to go that extra mile to get good stories? Do they shirk away from making sources, good reliable sources who have access into the system and would provide respectable stories? Or that the veterans who are running the show have compromised their news sense and maturity for TRPs?
All that the news channels in India are concerned about are their TRPs. They seem to care the least whether they show something which can be called 'News' or just any kitsch. And in the course of it they have started sensationalising any Tom, Dick and Harry's life and showing it with sound and light effects to make it appear like a movie or a soap opera.
Take the case of this Patna professor who was supposedly having an affair with a JNU student. The professor's wife went to the police and registered a complaint against him alleging that he was making obscene CDs. The professor's face was blackened and that provided a juicy footage for the channels to hook audience. But it has not been proved that he was making CDs or he had any such intentions. He was having an extra-marital affair which is not a crime and his wife wanted to get him punished for betraying her so she made up this case.
I fail to understand how mature and seasoned journalists can allow such slip shod material to be aired. If the professor had actually been making CDs then it would have been a matter of public concern. But no such thing has yet been proved. So much hype was given to the whole issue that half-hour programmes were aired on it and live chats were done on the issue.
What should we understand by such sub-standard material that the audience is being served? Is it that reporters have no news sense whatsoever? Is it that the reporters are lazy to go that extra mile to get good stories? Do they shirk away from making sources, good reliable sources who have access into the system and would provide respectable stories? Or that the veterans who are running the show have compromised their news sense and maturity for TRPs?
posted by sk @ 7/10/2006 01:23:00 am
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