Mediator

Enough has been said on TV. Enough has been read in newspapers!!

Unnecessary stories, insignificant happenings blown out of proportion, breaking news breaking every 5 minutes…We have been made to feel like soft targets of the media dictatorship. Just when the so called free media was considered to be the boon of the century-every now and then they go ahead and prove their suckerish attitude for cheap popularity and keep compromising on quality, making attempts to take people of this country for a ride. Be it the nonsense reporting on TV channels (and man, do they take nonsense to a new level), or the the papers almost entirely filled with extravagant party stories of ‘socialites’.

So this I thought would be a good place for, well ,I wont say media bashing, but more of a platform to post grievances, discuss pitfalls and vent out built up frustration towards our news broadcasting community. Expect anything! News channel criticism, caustic takes on newspaper articles, updates on news and latest happenings (probably more when there’s no media ass to kick)..Well I’m a blog virgin, so I guess anything goes! And though quite a few blogs have been written about this in the past, they have been what can only be termed as crass and inexhaustive.

Being a journalist is India is probably fun (I wouldn’t know).You get to play with the psyche of the public, well that’s the feeling I get with all the dramatic reporting (read Barkha Dutt during 26/11), at the same time you get to witness some of the most bizarre and unexpected events and stories this country has to throw at you. All said and done, it is a tough job, I agree. But please let the sanity in news prevail!!

I hope to bring, in days to come all the colorfully tasteless and positively atrocious news and reports witnessed on TV, the papers and even the net. This should probably be more fun than the news itself. Till then, peace!.