Thursday, November 26, 2009 

I "happened to see" my blog while I was searching for something else, and realized that the previous blog post was about media and 26/11.
I just happened to realize that today is 26/11. Even though I am not watching television these days, and completely banned news channels, I occassionally bump into them in cafeteria or even at home once in a while. Did it change from the previous post, answer is NO.
Will they change, time will tell.

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6:21 AM | |

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 

Shashi on Sunday

I was reading Times of India this Sunday, and I came across this article by Shashi Tharoor
It was an interesting reading.

The most important point stressed is the attitude...
This is the India that did a deal with the Kandahar hijackers rather than the India that threw out the intruders of Kargil.

Some of the key things...
Sreesanth’s extraordinary hit over Nel’s head for six — in reaction to the South African paceman’s attempt to intimidate him — encapsulated, I argued then, all that is different about the new India: courage, assertiveness, a refusal to be cowed, a willingness to take risks and ultimately the confidence to stand up to the best that the outside world can flung at us

 What Sreesanth demonstrated in Johannesburg was an attitude that has transformed the younger generation into a breed apart from its parents’. It is the attitude of an India that can hold its nerve and flex its sinews, an India whose self-confidence is rooted in the sober certitude of self-knowledge, an India that says to the future, “come on; I am not afraid of you.”

Dravid demonstrated, haplessly, that the dead hand of the older India still clings on — an India that is afraid to take risks for fear of failure, an India without the courage of self-belief, an India that is all too willing to settle for 1-0 than go for 2-0.

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6:59 AM | |

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 

News !!!

I never could imagine a lower level than this for "National news"
24x7 News channels have de-graded the quality of news to such low levels.

Check this.

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1:38 AM | |

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 

My next rambling...

Every one who reads news papers try to "share" or "exchange" the knowledge/information with other. Which might mean that they are eager to display that they are "thinking" about the happenings around them, and that they have an opinion about those happenings.
A news paper might publish a lot of news every day in news paper. It may not be humanly possible for people to "discuss" about all the news that they publish. The dicussions might get confined to very few.

The big question is how do we decide which are important, which are not?
While, normally it is for people to decide which is important for them, or think about how the news affects their lives, it is common for people to discuss about the "prominent news" or "headlines" as are properly termed.

So, it is the news papers which are determining, what people should be thinking and discussing. This is not reducing the burden on people, but killing their own thought process.

This is my "poor translation" from the one of the posts in a media blog(This post was in Telugu)

While the author's comments are about some other issues, I found the comments very relevant, and I have always felt the same about all the news papers and more so about the "24 hour news channels".

While with news paper, you have few other pages to read apart from "main page", with 24 hour news channels, you do not have an option to listen to "other news" apart from what they show.

I donot watch the news channels these days. I stopped watching news channels. But while flipping channels, I happen to see how degraded the news quality have become. They "impose" "news" on you.

First they try to find "who is to be blamed" (I am talking about cricket)

Greg Chappel is easy target. Conduct a "trial" without the "accused" being in the picture. The irony is "every one" is an expert there. They extend their microphone to every one including a child on the street(unfortunately they never come to me.)
I have a way out to write here in blog even if they didnt not give me a chance to appear of National television with some comments :)

Then they find their own justifications, or get anonymous news, news from "trusted sources" etc.(like Greg Chappel accusing senior players)

They ask "Senior players" for reactions. There are some "anonnymous" comments from some "senior players", and there is a "famous" interview of Sachin where he made some "comments"

Now the discussion starts as to "whether Sachin is justified in doing it?"

well... As I said I donot watch news channels these days... but these are just "headlines" which I watch in between my other favourite programs.

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11:04 PM | |

Monday, April 02, 2007 

Pun

These days I read news papers, and try to figure out what the news actually could be, by looking at the heading of the news.
There are some funny things which appear like "Sport of pain" for the Indian defeat in "Port of Spain" in Caribbean.
I opened a news web site sometime back and see this heading "Quake hits Pak, tremors felt in India"
I was wondering if there is any pun in that headline.
But unfortunately its only about at earth quake...

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10:07 PM | |

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