If you are asking this, doesn’t mean you are ignorant or you don’t watch TV or read news paper (means to "World-Pune"). But still you cannot be said to be updated about what’s going on in our country. In addition to all these chaotic news of financial crisis, bull becoming bear at Dalal Street there is one good event happening in India. India is hosting 3rd Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, which are held every four years. This is first Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in Asia. The 3rd Commonwealth Youth Games is scheduled from 12th to 18th October 2008. Over 1,300 athletes and 350 officials from 71 countries will participate in 9 disciplines.
http://cygpune2008.com
But who cares about it. The Union Cabinet approved and made available the release of total funds of Rs.110 crores for the conduct of Commonwealth Youth Games. Few crores were added from State Govt. funds, PMC and MP's funds also.
http://www.skalmadi.org/section/commonwealth_youth_games
So our hard earned cash which is filtered as taxes by govt. is being seldom spend for some noble and global event and we don’t even know about it.
Whom to blame? - Of course our very own media.
Media (esp. Hindi news channels) have time to showcase comedy program like 'hasoge to phasoge', 'rakhi abhishek slap bulletin', frustrating serials which defames astrology, numerology, astrophysics by inviting “dongi babas” and talking on what will happen when Mars crashes with earth on 8:8:8 AM 8/8/08, I guess it was auspicious day when Bejing Olympics started and we in India were waiting for dismissal of our beautiful planet. Another channel’s favorite poster boy is - The Mahabali Khali (the great loser of WWF), undesired weird crime serials like crime reporter, vaardaat and of course 'Sansani'whose anchor himself seems like a criminal! - Chain se sona ha to jaag jao. Phew... abey nautanki! agar main jaagunga to sounga kaise...
Tune into any Hindi news channel any time throughout the day and here you are caught; you will be at the receiving end of the cheapest and sleaziest news reports and they will proudly serve thrashes.
The formula these news networks rely on is pretty simple. Any event or information that promises to break the monotony of real life can be considered” breaking news" as long as it can be presented with a dash of sensationalism.
The standard of the Indian media especially the Hindi and vernacular media is nose-diving at an alarming speed.
Creating sensational and over hyped news items through sting operations, manipulation and even through exaggeration are now passé for the Indian media; the emerging trend in news coverage in India is one of exploiting and cultivating the regressive mindset of a large section of the population. These channels are selling journalism for greed of few TRPs whose core value is to bring truth and justice to common people. Indian Journalism either needs to be redefined or we have to coin a name for these activities so that we don’t lose the meaning of the word “Journalism”.
This is surely a disheartening for true sport lovers. It justifies the pathetic condition of Indian sports especially non glamorous sports. Perhaps, had 20/20 cricket (with their new found and now inseparable part; cheerleaders) been part of the games the situation could have been different.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that it is the first major international event (after Delhi Asiad) with 71 countries, it is shocking that it hasn't received Indian media's attention. Why should you blame Hindi electronic media only, even English electronic media did not cover the Youth games adequately. On inauguration day itself English channel NDTV 24x7 was engaged in covering Sister Alphonsa sainthood news for whole day and evening (prime time) and rest of the days they were more interested in covering the US presidential elections debate. It could be because they do not want to lose there customer even for an hour. Same for Hindi news channels. I think that all types of Indian television channels have lost their credibility as responsible media.
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ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for sharing information..........
By the way check the total information about the Commonwealth Youth Games like Fixtures, dates, Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 Schedule, Timings, Events, Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 Results Commonwealth Youth Games 2011