Remember Bhairavi Goswami? The starlet who recent hit the limelight thanks to her tweets which most likely were aimed at Aishwarya Rai Bachhan and her pregnancy? Or remember Poonam Pandey? The aspiring model who had openly claimed that she would bare all should the Indian Cricket Team win the recently concluded World Cup? Or that prince from some royal kingdom in Rajasthan who had openly announced that he was gay and welcomed Article 377? Or even the Admar Mutt Seer who had claimed that he would sacrifice everything and go to the Himalayas should Sonia Gandhi become the Prime Minister of the country?
It is very likely that you had forgotten them, till you read this post. I too had, till I read a newspaper slamming them for attempting to create attention by such means as false claims and posts & comments in public forums. I was surprised to see such a stark reaction from the media, who I firmly believe is the very reason why those people get the motivation to do what they are doing. They know for sure that all they have to do is to just do something that would somehow come to the notice of the media, and the rest would be taken care by them.
Though I am not supporting what they are doing, I do not blame them either. There is nothing wrong if someone wants to be noticed. In a highly competitive world, I think it’s absolutely fair. But giving them attention or not is entirely left to the audience. And more often than not, the attention is merely a matter of a few hours or at most a few days.
In such a scenario, I feel it’s completely wrong on the part of the media, to give them attention on the one hand and then criticize them sharply on the other hand. If not anything, they are contradicting themselves. In the race to TRP ratings and higher viewership, the media today doesn’t even verify facts before making inferences, thus ending up misleading millions of people in the process. It is actually a pain to watch a few news channels whose major focus is only on gossiping and scandalizing events and blowing them out of proportion.
Thoughts?
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