Fake Indian Media is Yellow journalism.
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When the media 'self governs' itself breaking all the ethical standards is 'Yellow Journalism'.
Ever since the Hearst vs Pulitzer, yellow journalism has been deeply en-rooted in the journalism field. The yellow journalism reverts to tactics of exaggerating, glamorizing, using suspense to present any fact. The main ethics of journalist is to report the fact and not add subjective view to the fact in the sole aim of selling or propagating their ideas. The yellow journalism is unethical but it works because we Human Being by nature are gullible and are emotional creatures. We are more inspired to choose a particular thing based on emotions rather then on logic. Our choices are emotional and sometimes backed by logic but mostly, as gullible people we are, we listen to our hearts then to our brains and this area is where the yellow journalism strikes.
Indian Media today are nothing but the machines propelled by the fuel of yellow journalism. India Media practices it to such extreme that it will make both Hearst and Pulitzer hide their faces in shame. Today, every Indian media houses are after TRP (television rating point) and pursues the goal of increasing its viewers and subscription. In the process of it, they have started pursuing such unethical practice of targeting the cultures, nationalism, holy men of India because this is what Indians care about and associate themselves with.
Just like Mr. Hearst who sold the idea of a Cuban girl procuring her freedom to jail break and enter USA with he himself orchestrating the jail break, similarly the Indian journalist have started pursuing similar tactics in defaming the religion, culture, holy-men by false reporting, over exaggerating and basically generalizing crime like 'rape' to all holy men. Therefore, not a day goes by in the life of Indian Media when they do not attack holy men, Hinduism, cultures etc.
Indian media have hit such low that to make money out of journalism, they are attacking the very values that are the foundation of India. Hinduism is the foundation of India because India is also known as Hindustan or the land of Hindus. Though India is a secular country by recognition from the constitution, still the life style, thought process, vital characteristics of the mass is deeply en-rooted in Hinduism. Since, Hinduism is more of a duty based Dharma which advocates duties over right such that the Geeta says, "the only right of an individual is to perform one's duty perfectly", therefore the Hindus bothers less about what other people do and instead focus on what duty should they perform to live in the society and this is where the India Media has found the soft target for Yellow Journalism.
Indian Media today are nothing but the machines propelled by the fuel of yellow journalism. India Media practices it to such extreme that it will make both Hearst and Pulitzer hide their faces in shame. Today, every Indian media houses are after TRP (television rating point) and pursues the goal of increasing its viewers and subscription. In the process of it, they have started pursuing such unethical practice of targeting the cultures, nationalism, holy men of India because this is what Indians care about and associate themselves with.
Just like Mr. Hearst who sold the idea of a Cuban girl procuring her freedom to jail break and enter USA with he himself orchestrating the jail break, similarly the Indian journalist have started pursuing similar tactics in defaming the religion, culture, holy-men by false reporting, over exaggerating and basically generalizing crime like 'rape' to all holy men. Therefore, not a day goes by in the life of Indian Media when they do not attack holy men, Hinduism, cultures etc.
Indian media have hit such low that to make money out of journalism, they are attacking the very values that are the foundation of India. Hinduism is the foundation of India because India is also known as Hindustan or the land of Hindus. Though India is a secular country by recognition from the constitution, still the life style, thought process, vital characteristics of the mass is deeply en-rooted in Hinduism. Since, Hinduism is more of a duty based Dharma which advocates duties over right such that the Geeta says, "the only right of an individual is to perform one's duty perfectly", therefore the Hindus bothers less about what other people do and instead focus on what duty should they perform to live in the society and this is where the India Media has found the soft target for Yellow Journalism.
The India Media have now started attacking the religion, values, culture because it is what makes the public tickle. Therefore, the daily demonizing the holy men based on the act of one particular holy men and generalizing all others, creating sensations out of nothing. In fact, lot of journalist have made their career out of defaming. I would not want to take the names. If any person wants to know the status of Indian Media, one can log on to any Indian news channel at prime time after 8 pm and then witness the melodrama first hand. The discussion panel is more worse then the fish market. The discussing members do not allow each others to talk and put their opinions forward.
The Indian Media has now become the powerhouse of bigotry because they do not tolerate opposing views and kick the participating guest out of the show in a very rude way. The screams can be heard, panelist are chosen and the opposing panelist are defamed and attacked. Please have a first hand look at all the media programs for the proof. Within the international standards of BBC and CNN, they fall nowhere near, not even a mile near the standard.
Something has to be done to upgrade the cheap and yellow journalism of India. In one of the court cases against the media, the host of the popular debate show was handed rs 100 crore as punishment which is equivalent to 14.5 million US dollar. The judges were not willing to ease it. Such is the case of Indian media.
So, it is not the matter of any amazement that the Indian press be labeled and called as "Presstitutes". They sell themselves to the orders of their sponsors. The Indian Media is loosing its credibility and reliance of the general public. In future, the Indian Media will also pose a threat to the democracy because the media is doing everything in its powers to destroy democratic values and institutions through misinformations.
Therefore, it is high time for the people to 'bell the cat' against the media. Media should also have accountability and liability and shouldn't be left unregulated because it will lead the media to became tyrannical in its approach to journalism. An establishment of 'Media Tribunal' to prosecute fake news would be a boon to the coming generations.
The Indian Media has now become the powerhouse of bigotry because they do not tolerate opposing views and kick the participating guest out of the show in a very rude way. The screams can be heard, panelist are chosen and the opposing panelist are defamed and attacked. Please have a first hand look at all the media programs for the proof. Within the international standards of BBC and CNN, they fall nowhere near, not even a mile near the standard.
Something has to be done to upgrade the cheap and yellow journalism of India. In one of the court cases against the media, the host of the popular debate show was handed rs 100 crore as punishment which is equivalent to 14.5 million US dollar. The judges were not willing to ease it. Such is the case of Indian media.
So, it is not the matter of any amazement that the Indian press be labeled and called as "Presstitutes". They sell themselves to the orders of their sponsors. The Indian Media is loosing its credibility and reliance of the general public. In future, the Indian Media will also pose a threat to the democracy because the media is doing everything in its powers to destroy democratic values and institutions through misinformations.
Therefore, it is high time for the people to 'bell the cat' against the media. Media should also have accountability and liability and shouldn't be left unregulated because it will lead the media to became tyrannical in its approach to journalism. An establishment of 'Media Tribunal' to prosecute fake news would be a boon to the coming generations.
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