Is there no shame in the Social news-media?
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He was recently at the Thanksgiving party in an American city, and some people said that he had heard in the Indian media about the upcoming wedding of the daughter of an Indian industrialist in Mumbai. These media had told that how wonderful the wedding will be and the brain will fly. Earlier, two days before the festival in Udaipur, where 200 Chartered fights are expected.
After listening to all this for a while and when he could stand it, he said that is this marriage not to celebrate marriage in such an extraordinary way when millions of Indian children do not get enough to eat? "It has been mentioned that according to the Global Hunger Index, 21% of Indian children are 'ruined', that is, their weight is much lower than their height, which indicates acute malnutrition and in fact 47% of Indian children are malnourished. In India, 300,000 farmers have also mentioned about suicides, heavy unemployment, total deficiency of proper health care and good education for the people etc.
This again clearly disturbs many of those people, who quickly move to another room. He was reminded of Sanskrit order Na Bruyat satyam apriyam 'do not say an unpleasant truth'. Unfortunately these habits die.
Therefore, he highlighted the great marriage of Priyanka Chopra with a great section of Indian media and the splendid marriage of Deepika Padukone with Ranveer Singh, as it were important issues in India.
They also feel disgusted when the life of Aaradhya, the granddaughter of Saif Ali Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, has been highlighted on the life of Indian media Kareena Kapoor.
Many years ago a major English journal wrote an article about women's breast augmentation surgery published on their front page, and now it has become cost-effective, spending only 1.50 lakhs rupees. He immediately wrote to the editor of that journal to register a strong protest. He said that most Indian women boasted bravely from doing outdoor work in addition to feeding, feeding their families, and sometimes earning a lot of money. He argued a brutal insult for them to talk about breast augmentation.
The Roman Emperor used to say that if you cannot give bread to people, then give them a circus. This Queen Mary Annette said, if people do not have bread, and then gives them a cake. These Indian states and this Indian media seem to follow these dictators. They are trying to draw public attention from the real issues facing people, which are socio-economic, entertainment like cricket, life of movie stars, baba, astrology, small politics etc.
There will be no objection to showing the media some entertainment, if it is not overdone. But when 90% of Indian media coverage is devoted to entertainment and that includes Indian politics in that category and is very little for social issues like health care, malnutrition, education, there is definitely something wrong with the Indian media.
Some 512 recognized journalists covered it in Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai some time ago. These models were dressed in cotton, while the farmers who grow cotton used to commit suicide for one hour in Vidarbha. Nobody told one or two journalists locally and did not tell that story. At one time he had a great journalist like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who wrote in his journals Miratul Newspaper and Sambad Kaumudi against Sati, Child Marriage, and Purdah etc. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, who harassed through his newspaper Pratap Against communalism, the crowds fought against and killed one,
And this was Nikhil Chakraborty who highlighted the Bengal famine of 1943. Even today they have P. There are great journalists like Sainath who have revealed the story of farmer suicides in rural India. But these are the exceptions and most of today's Indian journalists are being sold. These 'TRP' operated electronic media are the worst offender.
In England the Leveson Committee Report was promoted in the British media 'sensational' and 'negligence' and an independent regulator was recommended. It is probably necessary in India too. No freedom of this can be fulfilled or freedom of press can be. There is no doubt that there is freedom in democracy, but accountability is also there.
These lawyers are in a free trouble, but if they have abused the profession, their licenses can be suspended / canceled by the Bar Council and for medical malpractice the doctor's license can be suspended / canceled by the Medical Council. It could function independently as a judge in the High Court and the Supreme Court, but it could have been influenced by Parliament to take bribe. So everyone in the society is accountable.
But these media persons also oppose any accountability by an independent regulator. They say that they themselves will regulate. In his opinion self-regulation is an oxymoron. If there is to be self-regulation, then why should it be for the media alone? Why are laws against theft, rape or murder? Let everyone regulate themselves.
He is sorry to say that, but in his opinion most of the media people have very little knowledge of the superficial people's history, science, economics, literature, philosophy, but pretend to be great 'intellectual' Which can discuss everything under the sun. And of course, their morals are called better less. This is a former judge of Justice Markandey Katju Supreme Court and former President of the Press Council of India.
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