Give me some good news !!
Corruption, CWG, Jagan and the mining ministry. Bad politics and depressing news have become so common that they cease to be a sensation. I wish there was more joy, honesty and triumph to report, that watching news of death, calamities and human plight would not bring in feelings of deja vu.
Vuja De: The strange feeling that somehow, this has never happened before.
News coverage – social networking leading the race?
I ‘heard’ the news, long before it was aired on Television or published on online news channels.
My source was not reliable, but the news did turn out to be true. I saw the news flashing on Twitter and Facebook. People awaiting confirmation from news media on Michael Jackson’s death had numerous – almost ‘live’- status changes.
This got me thinking, was it the timing when I logged in to the networking site or was there more to the way I first heard the news?
I did a little investigation and this is what I found.
Word of mouth still the most effective means to transmit information, eh!
Idiot’s
There are days to fall in love, days to express them and days that make life ohh so perfect. I have everything figured out, actually we all have everything figured out. February 14 every year I will share my love for the current better half of my life, March 8 would be when I appreciate all women in my life, April 22 is when I sit in front of TV grimacing at facts about damage to mother earth and condemning everyone, somewhere in May will be time to make my mom feel special, June is for the father, September 16 I will think of the ozone layer .. so on .
Perfect.
It no surprise that when a news channal airs a piece on hectares of land getting washed away , the immediate concern is not how to prevent further calamities and provide shelter to the victims, rather discussing the disappearance of 150 crores is a far greater issue.
After all in a world where we are all so organised financial statistics are important – they are measurable ( compared to human or animal apathy), look professional, gives the political parties another topic to render irrelevant and more importantly how else do I get my TRP’s? The plight of the victims may catch the initial eyeballs but a banter between parties and the meaningless exchange of blame is far more entertaining. Breaking news material indeed.