So who takes responsiblity to draw lines of where does intrusion start and investigation ends? Where some lives should remain private and personal ? Where we, the audiences are not asked to rate a poor guy's love predicament through sms? I'm sure that such stories sure have ogle value, but apart from that what else! It seems like a very shallow attempt at aqcuiring eye balls and sustaining them. Its not that we are creating any sort of a refuge for star-crossed lovers, or giving them any sort of justice. The media trial continued well over the week as well, making tiny media stars of the professor and his lover. It boggles the mind to think that perhaps that's where most forms of media is headed---bringing personal lives into public sphere and under the glare of 'the very critical but slowly turning into trivial' media.
But its difficult to understand and gauge as to what is important enough, to accrue the media's attention, so it may as well be, on a 5 year old boy stuck in a 57 feet hole or the fact that a Miss Universe faints and collapses on stage minutes after she wins the crown. Has it all become about pointing fingers and trying to get that first exclusive? Or was it always like that, only I was the novice who believed in the greater good instilled in the fourth estate?
first published:August 02, 2006, 14:14 ISTlast updated:August 02, 2006, 14:14 IST
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We watched with our mouths agape, it was a scene out of a cheap film. A professor apparently caught red handed by media hounds and his suspecting wife, with a student. And there, out in the open, anchors of different news channels, stood by, and judged the "immoral affair". It was something out of a sleazy C grade Hindi film. And we were the unfortunate voyeurs who continued watching, the media, dissect the personal lives of three individuals and television news channels continued showing looped visuals of the wife slapping and beating the 'other' woman.
So who takes responsiblity to draw lines of where does intrusion start and investigation ends? Where some lives should remain private and personal ? Where we, the audiences are not asked to rate a poor guy's love predicament through sms? I'm sure that such stories sure have ogle value, but apart from that what else! It seems like a very shallow attempt at aqcuiring eye balls and sustaining them. Its not that we are creating any sort of a refuge for star-crossed lovers, or giving them any sort of justice. The media trial continued well over the week as well, making tiny media stars of the professor and his lover. It boggles the mind to think that perhaps that's where most forms of media is headed---bringing personal lives into public sphere and under the glare of 'the very critical but slowly turning into trivial' media.
But its difficult to understand and gauge as to what is important enough, to accrue the media's attention, so it may as well be, on a 5 year old boy stuck in a 57 feet hole or the fact that a Miss Universe faints and collapses on stage minutes after she wins the crown. Has it all become about pointing fingers and trying to get that first exclusive? Or was it always like that, only I was the novice who believed in the greater good instilled in the fourth estate?
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