There
was a time when media of this country was very active in showing the issues
relating to the public these issues contains Farmers situation, Small and
Medium Businesses condition, Corruption, Women Empowerment etc.. But now we
have notices that media is diverting from these issues and they are more
concerned what political parties and there leaders are saying . some days ago I
was listening to two Prominent Journalists of India Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai (Consulting
Editor, India Today), Mr. Ravish Kumar (Anchor, Prime Time of NDTV India) they
also complaint that now Indian media is showing politicians more than public
they are more concern about what Yogi adityanath, Akbar udin owasi, sakshi
maharaj and other leaders who are known for their communal and unsocial
comments and statements are saying once they say anything then maximum news
channels show them and they also open a debate for that in many news channels
the issues related to community, religion and Intolerance has gain much more
attention and other issues are just finished off and the main reason for this
is the TRP which every news channel now wants no matter what because in today’s
world there is a capitalistic environment in which everyone thinks about
becoming no. 1 and crush down all the competitors and many Journalist has complaint
that now there is trio of 3 things which is not good for the journalism at all
and that are Politicians, Corporate and Journalists and History says that this type of trio is not
in the favor of any country and this issue is not just limited in India it is
been watched in some other countries also and USA (United States of America) is
one of them because after Donald trump became President of United States of
America there was some news channels including FOX NEWS who are portraying him
as a leader and others like CNN who are portraying him as a fascist leader or a
dictator but in these things where are the common people.
Media should not forget that they
are for public and they must focus on the public rather than the politicians
and leaders because Public is the real voice of country not political leaders and they should be people’s path (Janpath) Journalist rather than being
a Rajpath Journalist which Mr. Ashutosh (Former Managing Editor, IBN7) has said
in a public show sahityaaa.
So don’t divert from real issues
for the sake of TRP because there was a time when media was the voice of people
and it was concerned for citizens which is now vanishing day by day so bring
that Journalism back
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