There was a terrible bit of news for Asia yesterday. India’s closest neighbor, Myanmar, has been struck by a devastating cyclone, Nargis, leading to the death of over 13,500 people and rendering over a million more homeless! The cyclone hit Myanmar’s capital, Yangon on Saturday with winds of over 190 kmph!! Nargis ripped through the country, destroying thousands of houses, bringing down power lines and knocking out the communications network. In all, it has resulted in mass annihilation throughout Myanmar.
What was more shocking though, was the fact that hardly anyone knew of this terrible tragedy here, in India, as our “highly efficient” news channels, who promise to deliver breaking news to our homes almost immediately as it happens, conveniently chose to ignore the tragedy, not bothering to even be gripped by the sheer magnitude of it, and chose rather to telecast hour-long features on IPL and the Great Khali!!!
Not that I have any personal vendetta against either Mr. Lalit Modi or Mr. Dalip Singh (Khali), who I feel, have made people across the world sit up and take notice of India, if not more! However, I feel rather distraught by this so-called Fourth Pillar of the Democracy, when it makes bones about trivial, irrelevant, almost absurdly stupid issues and shows almost nothing about international tragedies like the cyclone!!!
Hope the people who run these news channels read this blog and realize that we, as sovereign citizens of this country, expect something of value and dignity, at par with the media network of the world, rather than sleazy features about item girls or comedians irritating us with jokes that they have been repeating for over 2 years now! Hope they improve for the better and change their outlook towards “News” altogether. News, I believe, has come to mean nothing more than “NEWS- Nonsense, Exanimate, Wasteful Squander!!!!”
What was more shocking though, was the fact that hardly anyone knew of this terrible tragedy here, in India, as our “highly efficient” news channels, who promise to deliver breaking news to our homes almost immediately as it happens, conveniently chose to ignore the tragedy, not bothering to even be gripped by the sheer magnitude of it, and chose rather to telecast hour-long features on IPL and the Great Khali!!!
Not that I have any personal vendetta against either Mr. Lalit Modi or Mr. Dalip Singh (Khali), who I feel, have made people across the world sit up and take notice of India, if not more! However, I feel rather distraught by this so-called Fourth Pillar of the Democracy, when it makes bones about trivial, irrelevant, almost absurdly stupid issues and shows almost nothing about international tragedies like the cyclone!!!
Hope the people who run these news channels read this blog and realize that we, as sovereign citizens of this country, expect something of value and dignity, at par with the media network of the world, rather than sleazy features about item girls or comedians irritating us with jokes that they have been repeating for over 2 years now! Hope they improve for the better and change their outlook towards “News” altogether. News, I believe, has come to mean nothing more than “NEWS- Nonsense, Exanimate, Wasteful Squander!!!!”
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