while the giants elsewhere are cutting down on costs, laying off employees and going online, dumping their print editiosn, how does the media in our country fare? we have 24-hour news channels in several languages , regional, and in the natinal languages too.english does have its appeal though its ground is getting eroded by regional languages and Hindi.
The first casualty should have been the mainstream newspapers. though they do incur losses, they are still a force to reckon with. the truly professional tv channels have less time to devote for regional and local issues and the localised ones are losing credibility because they afre too preoccupied with trivialities, sensational twists to socalled miracle men and women and of course holy places,.
We are an inventive lot where mythology is concerned and if a temple has fallen on bad times (the pun is intended), there are experts to restore them to glory and pundits to chant the right mantras.More the merrier, is the rule and sevral parks and gardens and land meant for civic amenities are usurped by the priestly class or socalled devout.
In fact , the siteowners who have encroached on government land set up an idol overnight to protect their interests.barring exceptions, they do have heir way. this is election year and the Ram temple issue and the Babri masjid issue would again fiure in the political agenda. comonsense suggest that theconvers to Islam in India have no righ to expect more than what they get in the motherkand of Islam, that is Saudi arabia. There, several mosques have been razed to the groundto widen roads or take up infrastructural projects.
Besides the mosque at Ayodhya was not used for any religious congregations.
it is a political game taken too far. thelok sabha election results from Uttat Padesh, one hopes, will put paid to this controversy for ever.
The media too has taken a severe bashing by being too suportive tosecular forces or too hostile for them,.The print media is also adapting to marke ealities and turning into more user-friendly mode.
with the idustries crawling, with outsourcing business from us and eleswher drying up and pickup signs being dim, there is intense competition.the elections have come in handy for the media .some policy change are in store and the mopbile phone is the jey to further growth.
there is gloom but not depondeny . a clearer picture will emerge ater the electins in april.till then , hope is the boat on which media persons are heading towards the shores unknown to the.m.
they need your goodwill ( read cash)and your continued support..