Ha here am finally trying to type in something after months......I now have realised how fun life is working 24*7....minus the work I guess the brain really does not work a bit and so no thoughts and no blogs too!!!Through our lives (at least our genertion) has been really acquainted with the media like no other generation.Maybe the next generation will feel more of its effects.We grew with media maybe they will grow in the media.Thats how things are these days with everything from who sneezed and who slept 20 hours are making the news!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being pushed to watch the TV for the past 3 months , I have watched a hundred reality shows(where half the show is staged!!), a thousand stupid serials(all with the same story..watch 2 min of the show and you can be the script writer for the next 2000 episodes!!),a lakh interviews, a million news updates.Am in awe about the number of news items that gets telecasted in a news channel everyday.If one has missed all interviews, tv serials and reality shows..you just need not worry...switch on a news channel and the entertainment, glitz and glamour and reality there makes upto a million other tv channels!!!I really mean it.
There was a time when we really had , just the half or one hour news programs, then we had a few hours and now we have news channels in every language each running their string of stories! Am still thinking of why there are stories of me yawning and you laughing making it to the news and all the only answer I can get to is...they are running a 24 hours channel and unlike a news paper they need to be bribing the viewer with something or the other..So everything typically makes news!!!
I have been watching too many of these channels...tamil, hindi and english(guess should try out other languages also...guess it would be my free language course!!). News these days have been more of being tentative...there was a time when we saw just what happened and today i see what might happen, what might have happened behind scenes and what not. This day I have been seeing about this news exclusive about Sachin contemplating retirement on one channel, him not retiring in the other and what not!If Sachin is going to retire he will make a statement ,wont he???Why is everyone contemplating everything??We don't even know if that thought has crossed his mind, but everyones discussing of will he or wont he!!!!!!!We have so many of this might happen the first hour and this did not happen in the next hour!!!
All these keep happening but there are definitely those shows that really do convey what really is happening. We would have never known about all kidnappings and earthquakes and bomb blasts had it not been for these channels.Am happy atleast to see that we get to see the "real news" and also the fashion week at the same place.Atleast these news channels have become a place for everyone.Just tune in and get whatever you want.News, song, reviews, interviews,discussions, you name it and you have the perfect show dedicated for each of these.
Reality shows!!!!The trump card that every channel has these days!An indian idol, voice of india,sa re ga ma pa, super singer all have their own singing sensations, then there are the jodi no. 1's, nach baliye's and jhalak dikhlaja's all producing some dancers!!!!Some glitz, some glamour a pretty good no. of participants , some stage management, two non stop blah blah hosts, 3 judges and ya we have got one reality show. The only plus with all these shows, people we never knew became our acquaintances!!!Actually with some reality shows the prize money is so very catchy that it could actually set up the life for the winner!!!
All these said, what have I been doing all these days????Thank God I have got all these shows that would keep my brain from getting rusted.These shows after all save me from boredom and above all it has helped me write this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hey nice one..u have depicted the sad reality happenin with the Indian television.... media includes paper,radio,etc.. also rite:-), however t.v dominates the media so jus be it!!
About the newschannels, you've said it all they need some news to show the viewers so they do all sorts of contemplations,debates,reviews abt evrythin happenin in the nation. Nowadays sting operations have also started losin ther excitment with the viewers!! As for the serials couldn't agree more with u!! Well point made abt reality shows!!
I feel ppl cud learn the positives from the Foreign channels( esp. Us,Uk). We copy their shows, the same format, but they defenitely retain their content.Wat we do is concentrate on little things like sets and costumes tat in the end the whole content is lost makin the show look like a mere Glamour event!
hey nice post , but it would have been great to see some criticism as well of these shows you know. I hate it when they treat Sanjay dutt as some god. He is a bloody criminal b****, oops sorry got emotional. The reporters in HT 24 * 7 are his fans i guess , they tell this is his much awaited freedom as though he is some great mahatma.. he might have done a movie on the mahatma but its still a bloody movie.. and he is a bloody criminal who caused death of many ppl. maybe i am going off track but still on certain aspects they have to change a bit and be more professional. The big fight, is good so is we the people. well last weeks we the people was very poor .. are we weight conscious.. well India needs this very much whao what a gr8 topic.... come on guys grow up... well i have added all the criticism i can think of for you..there are many more actually
hey i agree with u shiv..dont even consider headlines today a news channel...all that makes news is about one actor or the other!!!and ya its real hard to see these actors being portrayed God's!!!!!1If one would criticising i think it should start from the news items and everything!!!!!!!I mean half the items dont even deserve to be read out or spoken about!
the good old idiot box eh...even i dont know wat i would do without it nowadays...
i spend most of my time fluctuating between sports channels...movie channels...and most of all...animal planet!!!!!!!
and i really love those reality shows as well....weekends would really be a lot more boring without them...;-)
news...i hav stopped seeing...i hate the sensationalism.....i prefer the good old newspapers any day....
ya good point sowmya and sriram... but i see these channels for the lack of doing things!!...today ht showed a news item from ranchi after dhoni had been made captain they were singing songs and dancing... phew only a few months back they broke his house... all over reacting hyper sensitive idiots!!..
hmmm well crafted blog on media.... but i feel we do tend to rely on it more than any other.. not for the sake of improving ourselves but just for entertainment.. so when it comes to passtime the only thing which can be easily looked upon is tv.. :) lol..do sit with ur tv,enjoy the progs but there has to be line drawn,beyond which we shouldnt take it... keep blogging yaar..
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