The Sad Demise of NEWS on TV

We all know how the Indian TV News has gone to the dogs!

On the whole just one incident which has proven once again the deteriorating standards of news television in our country. I have earlier posted my reservations against the news channels in India and hereby I again PROTEST the way things are going without any control by the Government or the Society.

The Arushi Murder Case has thrown open the monster we have in the name of TV News. We as a society are going nowhere; there is no collective mindset of a society to begin with. We are never one as a society except when some leader appears and leads us. Thats such a pity for the ancient society we boast ourselves to be a part of. Where is the backbone of our self-appointed social activists in this scenario? Why doesn't anyone come aboard and start a dialogue against the highhandedness and the lewd remarks made by the TV news channels in this particular case? Where are the so called moral-policing authorities hiding? Why there is no hue and cry against the "Media Trial" which had framed Arushi's Dad Dr R Talwar and also held him guilty by default - leveling charges that were slanderous and obstructive to justice?

Some of our TV news channels like India TV, Aaj Tak, News24, Zee News, Headlines Today should be taken to task and should be penalised and they should be made to apologise with a ticker on their channels expressing regret at what they did while the Police and the Family were all bewildered at the heinous crime. Some TV channels like the NDTV, TimesNOWhave begun to take the high moral ground and started debating the fiasco with fellow media persons but that doesnt solve what has already been damaged.The very characters of the aggrieved families and also of their friends and neighbours have been tarnished by the self obsessed TV News reporters and presenters that they forgot that had it occured in their own families how would they have reported the event?

Their is no ethics and principles in today's TV News. Whomsoever gets the first news calls itself Breaking News and it has become a sort of joke in our society that to feature in breaking news of any channel all one has to do is to attempt something abnormal and ghastly!

It's high time that the Media Bill which has been lying un-passed by the Indian Parliament, gathering dust at the Information & Broadcast Ministry of India, should be brought back debated and passed.

To view the Bill in its original format this is the link:http://mib.nic.in/informationb/POLICY/Bill200707.pdf

Here is the response of the Indian Federation of Journalist to the Media Bill in The Hindu:http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/07/stories/2007090761781500.htm

ASSOCHAM's Chairman of Cyber Law Committee - Advocate Mr.Pawan Duggal's presentation on it: www.cham.org/events/recent/event_91/_pavan_duggal,_chairman_assocham_cyber_law_and_it_act_committee.ppt

We think we are free and we can do whatever we want and speak whatever we want because wedo not have the sense of responsibility and we can get away with it!! No!

I think we as Indians do not have one thing in our lives amongst many other attributes - a discipline!

As our Army Chief had proposed we all Indians should have a compulsory Military Training. I agree with the Chief as the "DISCIPLINE" shall be inculcated amongst the Generation Next of India and we can see a new society which shall have a certain sense of responsibility and concern amongst fellow Indians.
This article regarding compulsory Military service is indicated below with reason:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-2709545,prtpage-1.cms

Many of us support the same as here:http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/feb/27msg.htm


Fauji Beat
Compulsory military training favoured

CONGRATULATING the NCC cadets of Punjab and Chandigarh for winning the maximum number of medals at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh, Justice O.P. Verma (retd), has emphasised the need for making military training mandatory for every citizen of the country. This training was essential to inculcate a sense of discipline and spirit of adventurism in them. Today, we are almost on top in corruption in the world. The words honesty, sense of duty and self-discipline are scoffed at by our citizens. So much so that an honest man cannot exist in any organisation. Shamefully, the country is at its nadir in all spheres of life. We have gone too far on the path of evil, the Governor said on February 1. The only way to bring the nation back from this is to make military training compulsory for the youth. In fact, this should be made a pre-requisite for joining any service. In a few years, this measure can extricate us from the stinking morass that is sucking us deeper and deeper into it. The Territorial Army and the NCC are the two shining examples of disciplining the citizens, which in an emergency can provide the second line of defence for the country. The best way to impart military training to the youth is to make NCC training mandatory for all school and college students.
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So lets create awareness amongst each other.Come together change for better. Step forward. Do not sit back and say "IT DOESN'T CONCERN ME" !!It's Enough !

I say to those irresponsible Media Houses who do not do their duties with ethics and responsibilities. Next maybe I shall go the legal way and make sure that all those wannabees media journalists are taken to court!

You cannot take anything for Granted!Freedom is not to do away with the Truth and just Create Shams and Report without any sense of Responsibility.