Is Indian media responsible..
A piece of news really angered me today, it is not the first time that such a thing has happened, its just that this time it made me write this article.
This news was about a pastor in Jaipur who was brutally beaten up by some members of the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) in protest to conversions carried out by the Christian community. Well my motive here is not to discuss the acts of the VHP (which again is preposterous), the point which I wanted to bring to notice was that all this was captured live by a news channel agency. The video footage had covered all the actions of the VHP members right from the time they were putting on their masks till the pastor bleeding profusely.
Its a different story when terrorist groups or the likes capture the video themselves and then send it to the media, but this is way out of what is expected from a media channel, to be aware of the crime beforehand and still not to stop it. It brings us shame to see that educated professionals of the media industry, who are the eyes, ears and voices of the masses in the country, getting involved in such acts just to get the exclusive coverage and boost their TRPs.
I guess they would have got more accolades if they would have acted like responsible citizens and would have prevented the crime from happening. We would have surely loved to see that video footage, as that would have brought us pride and would have re-instilled our faith in the country's media. But, sadly now they only bring shame to us.
This news was about a pastor in Jaipur who was brutally beaten up by some members of the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) in protest to conversions carried out by the Christian community. Well my motive here is not to discuss the acts of the VHP (which again is preposterous), the point which I wanted to bring to notice was that all this was captured live by a news channel agency. The video footage had covered all the actions of the VHP members right from the time they were putting on their masks till the pastor bleeding profusely.
Its a different story when terrorist groups or the likes capture the video themselves and then send it to the media, but this is way out of what is expected from a media channel, to be aware of the crime beforehand and still not to stop it. It brings us shame to see that educated professionals of the media industry, who are the eyes, ears and voices of the masses in the country, getting involved in such acts just to get the exclusive coverage and boost their TRPs.
I guess they would have got more accolades if they would have acted like responsible citizens and would have prevented the crime from happening. We would have surely loved to see that video footage, as that would have brought us pride and would have re-instilled our faith in the country's media. But, sadly now they only bring shame to us.
3 comments:
Hmmm... So this may be the first time in ur posts but I think you got carried away here.
Its generally not the responsibility of the media nor is it recommended... whether it is Gopalan as in case of Veerappan or some CNN news reporters reporting from Serbia, reporters are meant to provide a coverage and thats all. Heck, they are not even supposed to voice their opinion (which is violated innumerable times) or display their emotions. There is no point of interfering in the actual event lest they are shunned and prevented from doing their jobs or worse actually affected by it. Dint mean to be verbose here... But this is open for a debate.
Thanks neil for the comment..
I think we are loosing the plot here. Its not whether its the responsibility of the media to act or not ... At times like these, its the moral fibre of the individual that comes under scrutiny and not that of the media as a whole (coz we know for sure that their aint no moral fibre in the second case!!!) .. Thats just my personal opinion ... Just trying to say that the reporter over there could have informed the police if he had been kicked by that lil thing called conscience!!
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