The Critical Eye
Season2
Episode 1 “Make Me
Sensational!!!!”
The populace today is ready to go to extreme lengths just in order to be
seen and heard. If the matter holds gravity and makes some sense I don’t find
my intellect opposing it. But the disturbing part is, such a gimmick has
attained the normalcy title in our humdrum lives. But the media and especially
the newscasters these days are all about overhyping tiny bits of insignificant
piece of news to public at large.
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| Over-hyped news |
Before we deliberate more on this, a little dose of general knowledge
which I am sure you all know, but have forgotten.
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| Newscaster |
-- Who is a newsreader?
A news reader/presenter is a person
who presents news during a news program on the television, on the radio or on
the Internet.
--How should the news anchor deliver the news to its
audience?
The correct way of delivering any piece of news to the audience is by
correct modulation of tones, clarity of accent and most importantly delivering
news without any bias or over-sensationalism. In simple words, the newsreader
should deliver the news to the audience without their personal opinions which
should not be reflected either in their tones or mannerism.
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| Private news-channel |
Now let’s get back to where we started. Private news channels these days
present irrelevant info in an arresting manner which translates the core of the
news into a hair-raising story. But
which when concludes, leaves you robbed of your extremely valuable time and
attention. Not only you are left with “x” minutes short of your life but it
also stirs open a pointless whirlpool of mass unrest and misinterpretation.
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| Doordarshan News Bulletin |
Let’s
travel few years in the past, say when doordarshan or popularly known as DD1
was the go to channel. How many of you remember the way the newscasters would
read out the news from their teleprompters without a single fumble. No goof ups
with the pronunciation and most importantly, no scandalous tones. News was read word by word like a message
being distributed amongst the people with no over chirpiness or blues. It would
not be wrong to say minus no personal touches.
After knowing what we knew but was lost in the transit, its time to hop in
the present to the media folks who edify are knowledge bulbs today. Information
like: a man surviving a normal electric current/ a cow grazing in the greener
pastures etc are highly dramatized over the entire day.
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| Sensationalizing Every News |
The news anchors
personal emotions will either force you to be for the motion or against the
motion, rather than bringing the veracity and accurate facts of the bulletin.
Running the same newsflash, the whole day along with roping in shit loads of
advertisements plus congregating the sane minds can only happen when every news
becomes a “BREAKING NEWS”.
Because of silly exaggeration of the complete news, the vital news, which
actually is the breaking news loses its life blood. Just like in reality shows
of today, the judges give standing ovation to each performance thereby leaving
the audience’s brain drilled with this thought….
“if every act is worthy of a standing ovation, then how do you decide the
first, second and third. And if you do decide the best , the second best, then
why stand for all.”
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| Who is responsible? |
The responsibility, ethics and duties that come with being the fourth
estate have all settled like fossil sediments at the bottom of our
consciousness forever.
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| Ethics? wrong or right? |
Mirror Mirror on the wall; tell me who's the ugliest of them all?
Makeup and mirrors are like a match made in heaven and will live for eternity. The only species that will be left in case of a nuclear war will be cockroaches and the deadly duo of makeup and mirror. Tune in to this laugh riot when I come back with the next episode of The Critical Eye Season 2 . Brand new episodes coming up!!!
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