The Pulse Blog

By: Sourav Sharma
Over the last few years, media has undergone a sea change in terms of the news that it offers. It no more can be assigned the repute of being society’s watchdog. The competitive strides in almost every field have affected the India media news field as well as the number of news channels flooding to the fore front is endless. As the number is increasing at a paced rate, the quality of media news being served is degrading. Hard-hitting investigative reporting is now a thing of past, what we see today is something superficial and at times very trivial. Media news India can also be blamed to be biased when it comes to highlighting the media news regarding any particular political party. Today, the media news India concentrates on debate spun news programs with the hosts and panelists having absolutely no connection with the topic being discussed. Ground fact finding has taken the back seat as investigative news reporting is being mitigated.  

The cobweb of a vast cable network can be attributed the entire blame for having captured the lion share of the media news market being flooded with the overtaking local news affiliates. Apparently, it is not the reporters or the commentators who are to be blamed for this degradation; the root problem lays with the producers, the owners and the editors of the media news channels. Today, the media news organizations seem to have compromised with their professionalism as an aid to reaping profits. The viewers on the other hand are accepting half the truth being posed to them through media news. The fact is that media news India have tossed a veil over their spotlights which once upon a time shone bright. Technology news too has been discarded as a bargain with the other entertainment news simply to achieve maximum TRPs and thus, more profits. India technology news now remains restricted to a simple news item that runs for about ten to fifteen minutes whereas the other trivial news shows continue being repeat telecast for hours.