What's happening to true spirit of Journalism ?

 
Offlate , the journalism industry has become more commercial than any other .Wonder what is happening to the true spirit of journalists . I know that any change should be welcomed .But this drastic change is not serving the purpose of  it's existence .From the newspapers to television -everywhere there is political party's involvement .How will a common man understand the truth  ? Take a look at the channels and hardly any of them is not owned by the political family/politician. Kalaignar,SUN,Jaya .and now Captain TV on its way ??
They are into radio and newspaper segment too and even magazines .And how does even the common man beleive all these news to be true .Each one does bashing of the opposite party and we contribute to their revenue by buying or tuning in .

Where is the real journalist spirit here ..Is it not a responsibility of a media to broadcast unbiased news .A reality as a reality to the common public and not publicise only something that is will bring down the image of an opposite party .And they focus so much on unwanted news than real problems .For example -The recent swamiji nithyananda's sex scandal -was it of so much importance to have so many repeat telecasts throughout those two days ??Clearly we can see all they needed was TRP ratings and the scape goat was the actress Ranjitha .If this had happened in the west ..she could have sued SUN TV..end of the day it is her personal life and what it has resulted her is in a suicide attempt .

And come to the national television channles ..MY god ...are they just  into news ....? NOOOOOOOOOO
It's like each one has an agenda everyday to promote some movie star or gossips .Sharukh's or Big B blog will be a HEADLINE NEWS !!!!  And some clippings from a relaity show -which will go on repeat telecast for a week until that makes another headline . They are helping people like Rakhi saawant and Rahul Mahajan become a celebrity .A  decade back -News channels were watched to help accumulate general knowledge and be in tune with the current affairs .But currently news channels only help you to know
about what is happening in Bebo's life or which political party is in a mess.

Don't we think we have better things to cover in news that public should know ...

How nice it would be if news channels started spreading awareness on common issues and give the public the real news without the spice and masala to it and also cover news even if the newsmaker is not a celebrity!

A weekend with KK & Bombay :-)

I loved the weekend ...Especially the lazy sunday spent switching channels playing
my favourite movies ... "Kandkukondein Kandukondein " and "Bombay"

Atleast now TV channels are being sensitive enough to play the right kind of movies at a time like this .Movies which promotes peace & dialogue.Watchin Bombay gets me angry, so angry with people who have still not woken up to realise all this blood shed is cruelty and no one will win a war.Such a strong message from the movie and every scene during the mumbai riots makes you emote.some of the best scenes like
One of the twin asking a Unac if he is a hindu or a muslim and what it means by that ? The response is amazing -both are ways to reach god .From casting a muslim (Naser) as a Hindu extremist and a Hindu (Kittu) as a Staunch Muslim itself, Mani Rathnam has brought in national integration - i would say !

And the highlight of the movie is some of the songs which are so thought provoking -
Yuthathai niruthu and malordu malar engu...
And even the song poovukkenna poottu kaatrukkenna roottu has some amazing lyrics that i fall in love with everytime i listen to it ..

"soalaikku enna oru kavalai eppoadhum paravaigal azhuvadhillai
sooriyanil enrum iravu illai eppoadhum sorggaththukkuth thadaiyillai
kaanaththaanae kangal kanneer sindha illai
maegangal manvizhundhu kaayangal aanadhillai
vaazhaththaanae vaazhkkai veezhvadharku illai
pollaadha jaadhi madham iraivanum sollavillai
vellaththaanae veeram kolvadharku illai
kaiyoadu kaisaerththu vaanaththaiyae thottuvidu

Aravind samy takes your heart away when he brings out all his anger and partiotism
when talking to the Religious (Political ) leaders and his friends who gets into the riot madness ... He immediately reminds me of his another patriotic act from Roja
where he puts off the burning indian flag by jumping on it ..watte scene that was :-)


And yet apart from all these , you have some enjoyable ,fun scene with the couple's romance and with their children coming in -It's cute & adorable.

When it comes to Kandukondein Kandukondein - i love the character Meenakshi (played by Aishwarya) I see so much of myself in her ..She never lives in a real world , always dreaming..is blunt and honest , adores Bharathi and sings about her impossible wishes like "Inre varvendum Deepavali pandigai ,nalay verum kanavu -naan en nambanum -Naan nattathum roja inre pookanum"

Sounds so like moi ... I dreamt ,dreamt & dreamt .....and then just like her ,Reality hit me hard and made me realise that it is okay to dream but be prepared get hurt as much ...The story revolves around this family of 2 sisters (other actress being Tabu who is constantly reffered to as unlucky woman) and then Ajith , Mammooty & Abbas appear as well playing their part ..Some angry scenes of Mammooty are too gud ..Rajeev Menon is a class apart ..making a movie where every scene delivers class and makes ur eye want more ...Such is the beauty of the locations & photography ..And such lovely costumes ,bright colours and well stitched Pavadai ,thavani -Aish has looked her best in these costumes.Lyrics for most of the songs melt you heart ..

"Kanna moochi ena da ..Kanna -naan kannadi porul pola da" ,
all the gals would relate to it -as men only know to break ur heart :-(

Enge enathu kavidhai -kanavile ezhudhi madiththa kavidhai
Sad song expressing the disaapointment of a broken heart ...

I just enjoyed wtahcing these 2 movies and overall ..Loved the weekend ..And thanked the SUN TV network for being so nice this time else you know these people, they would play a romantic thriller or a superstar movie totally unrelated to Independance on August 15th !!! So i did not expect them to play a partiotic movie which talks about religious conflicts when we are going through simliar attacks right now!!

Kudos to SUN TV network , hope we get to watch more meaningful films through the IDIOT BOX in the future too :-))