Breaking News 1- Sania Mirza- Shoaib Malik plans for marriage.
Breaking News 2- Sania Mirza would be Shoaib’s second wife, Siddiqui claimed.
Breaking News 3- Shoaib Malik denies his first marriage.
Breaking News 4- Ayesha Siddiqui files complaint against Malik.
Breaking News 5- Shoaib Malik agrees to give divorce.
Breaking News 6- Sania Mirza- Shoaib Malik plans for marriage.
First of all, compare the first and the last breaking news!!
Then wonder, that since past one week we all are watching a news whose end was same as it’s starting.
Then again ponder, that this news had no business with us. It was NOT at all related to us.
For almost a week, on each news channel, the only news that flashed 24x7, that too as breaking news, was of “Sania- Shoaib” marriage plan. It seemed that for a week, there wasn’t any single important news going around in the country or world that could eliminate this news from our TV screens. Media didn’t leave a single chance to get the inside story of their marriage plan.
I was shocked to see the media attention and the way media dragged this news. I felt traumatized, to see how media engrossed itself so much to cover the marriage controversy of “Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik”, that it seemed, that media forgot the basic etiquette too.
I saw few clippings that presented media’s ignorance towards maintaing a basic decorum. Media was busy capturing Sania Mirza standing in her balcony with Shoaib and her mother, or Sania dancing with Shoaib, or Sania’s mother talking with her husband on terrace, or recording entry and exit of each relative that came at the home of the famous tennis player of our country at Hyderabad. Not only this, media gave opportunity to people to even write comments on this issue. Special polls were conducted.
Is this the role of media now??
To forget about the privacy of a person, and keep on focussing camera 24x7 on him/her. If this is the role, then it’s very disheartening.
Media has full right to flash a news, but hey, don’t do a detail analysis of it, that too LIVE.
I mean media can show the updated news after intervals, does flashing of this news whole day makes any sense?
I’m not against media, instead I would say, it’s very graceful of media to discuss the issues and I guess, it’s because of the media only that voice of Ayehsa Siddiqui (Shoaib’s first wife) got a high pitch volume and in the end she got justice.
But there should be a LIMIT. It was their personal issue. How can media creep in like parasites??
Work should be done within a boundary and that should not be crossed. Also, there are more important news going around in the country that needs attention, than a news of a marriage of a couple which is their personal issue all together.
Respect the privacy, may it be of a celebrity or a common man!! Have some civility.
I would have felt really nice, if media had given such coverage to the villages in Orrisa where people are dying out of hunger. People are NOT having food to eat.
Its high time media should realize, which news is more important, marriage of a celebrity or death of a malnutritioned common man?
And hello People, wake up!! Don’t stick like a glue to a news and waste your time which is not at all related to you...
copyright aditi kochhar
i bet the media people wont be too happy if they come to know of your plans to disrupt their flow of income. lol (laughing out loud)
ReplyDeletewhat i meant to say was... the world has changed now... all that people care about is fame and prestige. In order to make a fortune they can goto any extent and that is exactly what the media is also doing.
ReplyDeletelol... dont take it too seriously... its all part and parcel of life... think of it as something amusing. :-)
Yes surely, the world has changed. Where people have forgotten to prioritize issues, and things are being seen in a rose-tinted glass!
ReplyDeleteWhere someone's marriage becomes a "national" news, while on the other hand, Naxalites kill over a hundred policemen, and in a country where according to the UN, over 35% of the population is poor.
Surely, something's not right.
Being in a capitalist economy, surely, things are served, what is in demand.
Yes, people have vicarious pleasure and sensationalism in having this kind of news.
BUT....
Media, is a special case.
A country's media just can't be run on a profit-motive. Media has a great social responsibility.
It's high time, it recognizes its responsibility and fore-go their absolute profit motive.
Media, if tuned in the right way, can be the active power of SOCIAL CHANGE.
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Aditi, great article. Seems like you training your guns for the DC intern-ship eh!!!
Great going! :-)
Also, the masses, the "aam aadmi", might say, it's fun to watch such news... For they shall remain a commoner.
ReplyDeleteOne must keep in mind, that maybe one day, some of us may gain a high social status, and if then the general public and the media intervenes in our personal life, we will be the first ones to get pissed off.
For Sania, whether it's good or bad, but it's HER personal decision.
My best wishes for the couple.
lol this reminds me of something interesting i came across this week....
ReplyDelete("Screw modi and tharoor... who cares what they did or want!
thank you Pakistan for taking sania.... please take rakhi sawant as well :P" - Yahoo's Blog!)
OMG the funniest thing i ever saw on the internet!