Media Men OR Middle Men

Nations and States develop by deliberate human actions. Be it social or cultural or the newly emphasized climatic or ecological reforms that are slowly coming into place but there is one thing that hits harder in today’s world and that hidden rodent is called the MEDIA.

From glorifying at one point to blindly shaming at the other end, media does a great job as it keeps up with the quote “History is written by those, who killed people”.

Based on the idea of keeping up with time and staying true to ethics, our media to the contrary has become nothing but a giant channel that showcases daily soaps of a different kind. Antics similar to that of a monkey performing just beside a road are common where the both the monkey and his master is the media itself.

Since the invention of the TV, it took fairly less time for the TV to engulf our lives and achieve the pedestal of a family member. Being a common man’s eyes and ears to the outer world the media does a fairly good job of narrowing one’s focus, such that the person hears the same thing no matter how many times he/ she fiddles with the buttons of the remote trying numerous combinations of numbers.

The media has made the entire world ‘A Global Village’. Competition among various channels has increased at lightning speeds because today anybody owning a smart-phone could thrash a well reputed journalist or critic or anybody. It would be fair to say that nobody’s safe when it comes to reputation in the so called Global Village.

Talking about news these days, it would be right to call news as a ‘Selective and Socially Manufactured product with the ability to determine future turn of events.’

News today is all about pointing fingers and an exaggeration of who could keep promises better.

A reputed journalist who hosts the prime time debate was given Y category security after threats from a terror group i.e. he would be accompanied by 20 guards day in and day out.

(Another one performing antics but this time the antics being too much to handle)

Media has followed the approach of a reality show where more drama evokes more viewership leading to a larger share of the particular channel in TRP which sends cash balances ringing.

With too much at disposal finding correct info out of any ongoing show has become like a reading comprehension of a competitive exam where 90% is useless and only 10% is important so much so that one line on national television is repeated almost 25 times by the presenter or the news orator.

A journalist now-a-days is just a middle man sandwiched between politicians and people.

Something needs to be uplifted and it is surely the standard of the media.