This is in response to "Yeh thi khabrein aaj tak, intezaar khijiye kal tak" on Pingu's blog.
I think 'journalists' and news anchors these days come off an assembly line managed by a bunch of egotistic cretins in some B-school (wonder if the B indicates the grade of the institution in question). They are all the same - all confirming to the same LOW standards, all with the same illusions of grandeur. Poseurs and losers!
All they have accomplished is the perversion of the once-revered fourth estate into an abomination in the service of greed, deceit and authoritarianism. They rant and rave incessantly about trivia, leaving real stories to rot away from the public eye. They trivialize and sensationalize events that do matter, until the public is sickened. But worst of all they spread fear (without reason) and help undermine democracy (whatever's left of it).
William Randolph Hurst once said "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.” At least he knew what real journalism was and so he could tell hype from news - even when he was the one creating the hype. In contrast, today's losers swallow every bit of their own circus acts and actually believe they are jornalists. How PATHETIC!! Hardly any politician today is worthy of being called a statesman just as hardly any news reporter/anchor today is worthy of being called a journalist.
Pardon my strong language in this post but I have nothing but contempt for their kind and even that is more than they deserve.
I think 'journalists' and news anchors these days come off an assembly line managed by a bunch of egotistic cretins in some B-school (wonder if the B indicates the grade of the institution in question). They are all the same - all confirming to the same LOW standards, all with the same illusions of grandeur. Poseurs and losers!
All they have accomplished is the perversion of the once-revered fourth estate into an abomination in the service of greed, deceit and authoritarianism. They rant and rave incessantly about trivia, leaving real stories to rot away from the public eye. They trivialize and sensationalize events that do matter, until the public is sickened. But worst of all they spread fear (without reason) and help undermine democracy (whatever's left of it).
William Randolph Hurst once said "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.” At least he knew what real journalism was and so he could tell hype from news - even when he was the one creating the hype. In contrast, today's losers swallow every bit of their own circus acts and actually believe they are jornalists. How PATHETIC!! Hardly any politician today is worthy of being called a statesman just as hardly any news reporter/anchor today is worthy of being called a journalist.
Pardon my strong language in this post but I have nothing but contempt for their kind and even that is more than they deserve.
5 comments:
"How PATHETIC!! Hardly any politician today is worthy of being called a statesman just as hardly any news reporter/anchor today is worthy of being called a journalist."
'Pathetic' is just the word...
Thnx Paps for reading my post! :o-)
The fourth estate is as vital a part of democracy as any office of the government itself. And it's painful to see that every aspect of the system is a shambles. I'm sure you agree
hmmm...it has becum just another industry...dey r trying to rake in muney too...Prannoy Roy is tying up wid Karan Johar - NDTV Imagine :O
dey r all going overboard trying to outdo each other...
- Pingu
Well, what's true of all of humanity is true of journalists as well - the whole dang lot it going to hell in a handbasket. Disappointing, but deserved.
Indian news channels are taking the viewers for a ride.These news channels are nothing but entertainment channels masquareding as news channels.the hindi news channels have become puppets at the hands of film industry.Earlier the film promoters depended on film channels to promote their films.But lately they have chosen hindi news channels to promote films, and these channels happily promote those films as "special reports" and resort to " breaking news" from the eve of the film release creating any controversy as recently seen during the relase of jodha-akbar.
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