(Ir)responsible Media

No one could have ideally said it better than Sir Paul McCartney himself. The thin line that the media often oversees is the right to information and right to revealing. Angelina Jolie (for whatever unscrupulous reasons be) is trying to get a law passed that bans reporters from prying on their personal lives. There's a reason it is "personal" because it is purely no one else's business. The media sometimes gets so bent on getting news that sell, that they quite often than not forget their mortal mission, reporting 1-0-1 if you may - you broadcast news to make money but not at the cost of the society.

Say for example, the 26/11 incident. Covering the incident was important, but what was deemed unnecessary was them camping right outside the hotel and covering from every possible angle how, when, who and what was then being done. What was unnecessary was them to give out globally, where a certain group was safe and soundly hiding. While I do get it was partly the cabinet ministers fault who let out that juicy piece of information of the same but under such tormenting situation it is a mere miracle that they didn't blow themselves up but rather held on patiently waiting that soon something good is going to come out of it.

While the media has more than often abused their right to speak and write; they have on a very few occasions brought justice to the ones deprived of the same. Like the Jessica Lal murder case. Shot down publicly at a socialites party, brimming with evidence yet the case was suppressed. The criminals were acquitted after the initial hearings. Devoid of media pressure the criminals would be going around scot free. It took 7 years to drive the criminals to their rightful places, behind bars!

There is always two sides to any story and the media is supposed to cover not just the two sides but the possible parallel dimensional third side as well. However lately the media seems to be interested only in the dimension that clears their bills and good spirited journalism seems shockingly passée . Hope this is one thing that sure makes it back in vogue.