The fourth pillar of democracy is the title we bestow upon
the media. But after witnessing a series of events I highly doubt if they
really deserve this title. And also I question myself if we really deserve to
be called human.
Starting with the Guwahati incident. That girl whatever her
crime was did not deserve to be harassed like that. No one in this country has
the power to take over the place of law. It was their duty to inform the police
and deliver the girl to her guardians. But no!! What they did is they called
our media. I cannot really blame them, because in the past such television
channels has aired such news and it gives them cheap publicity. Had the police
being called earlier, it might have been totally different.
And what did our beloved media do?? They started filming the
incident. And when some of the persons in the crowd started molesting her they
were still filming. And they aired the news “attempted gang-rape of a girl in
the heart of Guwahati city”. Now the media needs to choose their words
carefully. Molestation and gang-rape are two different things which our media
promptly forgot for the sake of creating sensational news. And if it was an
attempted gang-rape, why on earth did you guys not do anything to stop it from
happening. The only answer came to my mind is if they had stopped it or even
tried they would have lost the sensational news. And as one of the
top-officials of Guwahati City Police has pointed out, the media persons did
not inform the police about the incident. That is our media.
And whenever a lady is involved in any kind of incident her
face is covered and identity not revealed in news. But what happened here?? Our
beloved “Entertainment News Channels" exposed her and those retards calling themselves
journalists was asking her identity even when she was being carried away by
police.
And there is also this incident from a couple of months back
in Delhi, when a Taiwanese youth set himself on fire. All the media persons
were clicking their fancy DSLRs and covering the event but none, not a single
person tried to help him. It was a constable and a civilian who actually tried
to save the boy. This is our humanity all reduced to TRPs and publicity.
Jayanta Talukdar, Shiva Thapa two sports persons from Assam
is going to represent the country in London. Has the media aired and interview
of them, a documentary about their work. No!! One of Assam’s innovator “Udhab
Bharali” has been shortlisted for the prestigious NASA technology Award. Has
the media publicized it? No!! And how did I come to know about him?? Only when
his website was hacked and the media published it. They did not publish about
him before because it was not sensational. But as soon as him website was
hacked it became a sensational news and our media publicized it. Why?? That is the true facade of our media.
Positive journalism is dying
thing. And till our media learns to play its role properly I guess it has
simply lost its right to call itself “the fourth pillar of democracy”..
