Thursday, August 1, 2013

Breaking News



As Wikipedia defines Breaking news, also known as a special report or news bulletin, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details. Its use is also assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live.

The three pillars of Democracy in India are Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and the fourth and most important one is the Press/Media.


The people of the country strongly believed and had their faith in media to fight the spineless Legislature and misplaced Executive and trace and put a check on the slow space of Judiciary.

The so-called conscience keepers of the nation, controversy or no controversy, have off late have become mere puppets in the hands of powerful Legislature and Executive pillars of democracy, after the arrival of television and the commencement of the dot.com era.  Neither have they succeeded in keeping the check on the other three pillars nor have they themselves been accountable.

Today sadly it has all become a game of TRP’s, SMS’s and sponsored/paid news coverage. It’s become more of an event management company or a gossip magazine.


There is no honesty left and they no more command trust from the commoner. Today the news standards have dropped to all time low and at the same time they have stooped to the lowest point in terms of allegations and counter allegations.


The recent reunion of sorts of the two mega stars of Bollywood has taken the reporting of media even a level further down. The current trend on the social media has once again shown what the public at large now thinks of the so-called conscience keepers.

This was one such sms doing rounds –


“As covered in the media…it seems that the biggest problem of the country is solved…now that Salman & Sharukh hugged each other and are friends again. The petty problems such as corruption, poverty, unemployment, inflation, depreciating rupee, rising fuel prices can be taken care of at a later stage and right now they have to be put on the back burner as the most important news of the hour is the reunion of the stars”

The following are few examples of how irresponsible our media has become –







-     Karan


10 comments:

  1. ROFL!! No wonder I don't switch on those news channels :D

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    1. true Kajal...but having said that not voting or turning a blind eye to whats happening around is also not a solution

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  2. The sensible thing to do is not trust media anymore. They rarely focus on critical issues because politicians and corporate bigwigs have heavily invested in them. Even Warren Buffet rarely accesses the media. Papers today are filled with stories of rapes, robberies, NaMo v/s Congress... it's appalling...

    Great post!

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    1. welcome to scribble Vishal :)
      glad you liked it !!!
      and whether someone else believes it or not should not be the criteria and by no mean Mr. Buffet is the benchmark to it...i think as the citizen of the country it even becomes our moral responsibility to demand accountability...candle marches and silent protests are no more an option.

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  3. Very relevant topic told in an epic way.....keep up my boy !!!!

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  4. very well thought and written...karan u have put the topic very truely.....people usually think all this but never ever have they given a thought not to trust media....whthere it be politics, bollywood,cricket ...media can make a person hero and in the next instance can bang him down....

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  5. very well thought and written...karan u have put the topic very truely.....people usually think all this but never ever have they given a thought not to trust media....whthere it be politics, bollywood,cricket ...media can make a person hero and in the next instance can bang him down....

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  6. very well thought and written karan...a very practical thing to think on...Media can make a person hero and at the same time it can bring him to grounds....whether a politician/a Bollywood star/a cricketer or a cat(as the pictures posted by u describes)...cant rely on them ...not even for weather forecast :P

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    1. True Sunny, their credibility has taken a lot of beating lately. also the paid news have doing rounds for many years now. It high time they pull up their socks or else lose risk whatever little credibility they are holding on to.

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