Indian Television Senseless behavior

I believe Journalist are the teachers to the society telling the people what is good and bad based on the reality situations of the present, past and future. I remember reading ‘The Hindu’, ‘The times of India’ and ‘The Indian Express’ papers and magazines like (India Today, The Week and my favorites of all The Frontline) bringing the news in a very constructive way. The benchmark of telling news was and will be always the “The Hindu” news paper. I was totally mesmerized by the columns written by these people on various topics in just a few lines. But today, we don’t find that Journalism. It makes me feel bad to say that dialogue at the age of 30. I mean it.
Now, media has become a tool in the hands of powerful lobby for putting forward the message they want. Media is misused by some people for putting forward their own propaganda. The latest example was the Iraq war and the “Mass Destruction Weapons” theory put forward by Mr. Bush. Sadly, every media house, now-a-days are taking a particular line on the topics and presenting us with our different viewpoints. This is actually good. But the problem starts when media taking sides irrespective of truth.
The senseless violence around world has been shown on the Television channels throughout Day and Night. Not only it is disturbing the young minds but also encouraging terrorist to follow that path for gaining publicity and spreading the fear. Live telecast are doing more harm than good.
My suggestion: the news what we are having now on the Television channels are of no use – killing, rape, hurting sentiments on religious, gender, caste and region based and spreading more vulgar in the name of fashion.
How about having “One hour news” in morning and evening, as it was in the past. Allow each television channel to telecast one hour news only. Then only, we will have good news coverage.
And there is lot more to discuss about the “Panelist” who discuss topics on the News channels.

Regards,
Tirumalanath
tirumalanath.neelaiagari@gmail.com