WHITHER IMPARTIAL JOURNALISM ?
Why are the television channels so biased in favour of Narendra Modi? Media houses ought to be neutral in reporting but are obsequiously not so. How can such a preset agenda in fashioning public opinion for gaining poitical advantage for a particular party without adherence to journalistic impartiality or to factual and objective truth be conducive to strengthening the democratic basis of our polity?
Now it is shameless journalism going on in most of the major national television channels with anchors carrying on round-the-clock propaganda for the ruling party. This is dangerous for democracy and detrimental for culture. It needs immediate redressing. But who will take the lead? It seems there is a greater trade benefit in lambasting the Opposition and eulogising the Treasury Benches, for that wins higher television rating points (TRP), so very essential for survival in a brutal world of free market trade.
However, conscientious reporters still refuse to be the poster-boys of the ruling party and so also their respective channels do to a certain degree, in the bargain maintaining that rare reporting balance which is the hallmark of enlightened journalism. But this is becoming more the exception than the rule, and it is regrettable, indeed.
Written by Sugata Bose
Why are the television channels so biased in favour of Narendra Modi? Media houses ought to be neutral in reporting but are obsequiously not so. How can such a preset agenda in fashioning public opinion for gaining poitical advantage for a particular party without adherence to journalistic impartiality or to factual and objective truth be conducive to strengthening the democratic basis of our polity?
Now it is shameless journalism going on in most of the major national television channels with anchors carrying on round-the-clock propaganda for the ruling party. This is dangerous for democracy and detrimental for culture. It needs immediate redressing. But who will take the lead? It seems there is a greater trade benefit in lambasting the Opposition and eulogising the Treasury Benches, for that wins higher television rating points (TRP), so very essential for survival in a brutal world of free market trade.
However, conscientious reporters still refuse to be the poster-boys of the ruling party and so also their respective channels do to a certain degree, in the bargain maintaining that rare reporting balance which is the hallmark of enlightened journalism. But this is becoming more the exception than the rule, and it is regrettable, indeed.
Written by Sugata Bose
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