The latest breaking news of a country which dreams of being a superpower by 2050, with a staggering population of a 1.2 Billion Plus ( the jury ( census) is still out), was caught in a catch 22 situation last week with the announcement of Sania's & Shoaib's wedding...
Of course there is a Maoist wars in one part of the country, municipal elections, water crisis, power cuts, ongoing census, bio metric identification program, US-Nuclear deal clauses, hundreds of corrupt officials cases, women's reservation bill, Maywati's elephants, increase in summer epidemics, in-complete stadiums to host the commonwealth games and many more such issues which did not excite the country or the media as much as Shoaib's love triangle...
I completely fail to understand how a very personal issue can be brought to such limelight , and be the single most discussed issue , ( IBN 7, Headlines today & NDTV claimed it as " Breaking News") in the media.
Does anyone really care who Sania is getting married too ???
Of course there is a Maoist wars in one part of the country, municipal elections, water crisis, power cuts, ongoing census, bio metric identification program, US-Nuclear deal clauses, hundreds of corrupt officials cases, women's reservation bill, Maywati's elephants, increase in summer epidemics, in-complete stadiums to host the commonwealth games and many more such issues which did not excite the country or the media as much as Shoaib's love triangle...
I completely fail to understand how a very personal issue can be brought to such limelight , and be the single most discussed issue , ( IBN 7, Headlines today & NDTV claimed it as " Breaking News") in the media.
Does anyone really care who Sania is getting married too ???
May be I should not have such a pessimistic view on the wedding..Let me list out why this is indeed breaking news,
Sania, Shoaib wedding is a prime example of how the heart knows no boundaries or Kargil wars and need no pacts for being together.. - Further enhancement to the India - Pak.. bhai bhai concept...
- Some level of speedy justice given to a muslim lady in hyderabad
- Monetary help to some business houses like Taj Krishna, Air travel companies and the myriad other shopping houses
- Help to artisans who can use their ability in encrusting swaroski crystals in the lehenga
- A good script which our Bollywood writers/diectors can copy.
- Of course, news & TRIP ratings for news channels who are otherwise starved of any breaking news
- Push Markeing for the millions of "eye balls" glued to the TV's & breaking News
- And of course more importantly, a whole new generation of Indo-Pak citizens to be born...
See, there is after all a long list of worthy clauses for the wedding being Breaking News..It is just that poor normal brained citizens like me could not appreciate it !!!
4 comments:
Good one...one more advantage...now pakistan also wud have a women tennis player in top 100 which they nvr did...though after the first match she wud be issued a fatwa for wearing short skirts and they wud happily settle in Dubai...
Thanks.. yeah, there will more reels of paper on whether the tennis fame should come to India, Pak or Dubai....
Why not!!! After all aman-ki-asha has gone deep into these two families atleast. Now that she is getting married to a terrifying neighbor country... i don't cheer for her anymore even if she decides to represent india. Enough is enough.
Well, nice drafted article, perfect for TOI's editorial pages on Sunday. You are right that poor normal brained citizens like us can hardly find it as 'breaking news'
But then Mango Man like us (AAM AADMI) and his concerns were never part of breaking news in our country's glamour hyped media ( sorry News) industry.
You have rightly mentioned the concerns of Mango Man in your second para, but media use them as 'Teasers' with no follow ups. What they successfully chase is glamour hyped news. (Cant blame those poor guyz, after all thats how they earn for their Rozi-Roti)
But in this vicious circle, what today's media is neglecting is the big responsibility they carry to take nation in right direction.
Scripting/Editing of news is in fashion today, I'm not against it, but it should be done for the benefit of AAM AADMI.
As rightly said in the movie Spider Man 1, with big power comes big responsibilities. The later is still lagging.
Will the real educated, sensible media PLEASE STAND UP.....
Mango Man....
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