Packaging confusion!
The revenue -driven model of 'private' television channels has fashioned 'news as commodity'. News has to have a glitzy, colourful 'package', and for most of the vernacular 'news' channels, ethics has been thrown out with yesterday's garbage.. News is being peddled in orer to 'improve viewer ratings'.
So, this means that you, the viewer are a passive witness to the shrill and boisterous sparring between panellists, [sound and fury signifying, alas, nothing!]. At the end of the session, the hapless viewer is left confused, bewildered and struggling to make sense of the story and to form a considered opinion.
What the public needs isn't the biased views of the so-called experts, but the drect and balanced reports of journalists on the ground, who have the advantage of first-hand experience.
High decibel TV debates can entertain, but fail to educate or enlighten, which is what news reporting is all about.
We are dependent on the newspapers and the print media like never before... the paradox is that only a fraction of today's so-called literate young adults spend time to read.
Go figure!
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| WHAT'S IN THE PACKAGE? THAT'S THE QUESTION. BY THE WAY, THIS PHOTOGRAPH HAS NOTHING TO ADD TO THIS POST, SO THERE.... |
So, this means that you, the viewer are a passive witness to the shrill and boisterous sparring between panellists, [sound and fury signifying, alas, nothing!]. At the end of the session, the hapless viewer is left confused, bewildered and struggling to make sense of the story and to form a considered opinion.
What the public needs isn't the biased views of the so-called experts, but the drect and balanced reports of journalists on the ground, who have the advantage of first-hand experience.
High decibel TV debates can entertain, but fail to educate or enlighten, which is what news reporting is all about.
We are dependent on the newspapers and the print media like never before... the paradox is that only a fraction of today's so-called literate young adults spend time to read.
Go figure!
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