Few discussions of Ratan Tata with his corporate lobbyist are leaked. And lots of documents from Pentagon was leaked by wikileaks. The first one will be interesting to public, they might want to know the personal life of the businessman. And the other will interest terrorists who might want to know about the pentagon secrets or talibans who wants to know the secrets of NATO forces working in Afghanistan.
Why they have to provide the information to public (which includes terrorists) which might harm the nation or which invades the personal life of someone. How would we feel if wikileaks provides the information about Nuclear missiles in India, Pakistan could use that information. What if the documents leaked by it have the names of scientists who are working on Agni Missiles? Or what type of technology is used in the missiles, wont you think enemies to our nation would use that info to figure out flaws in the missiles? And that knowledge would give them an upper hand when its a war.
Once journalism was all about telling the truth which is useful in nature to public. Now it seems journalists are putting more affords on giving the information which people like to know. ‘Headlines today” gives info on bollywood gossip at primetime. One telugu news channel airs remixed songs at 7pm, Hindustan Times prints picture of Dhoni and his wife having fun at a beach where his wife’s panty is visible on the front page, and telugu channel TV9 made a one hour program on those pics. All most all the telugu news channels air shows about masala songs after 11pm. When there is a wedding of a celebrity it will be like oo-pe-ku-ha like in a jandhyala movie (telugu). (ఊళ్ళో పెళ్ళికి కుక్కల హడావిడి ). They provide minute details right from the cost of the brides saree to the number of items at the dinner party. If you remember marriage of sania mirza you will know what I mean. We expect news from news channels, not entertainment or gossips, we have zoom and NDTV goodtimes for that purpose.
The point is just like all politicians are not bad…..all non-politicians are not good either…our society has thieves and terrorists in it. And some sensitive information should not reach them, and we cant expect them to not to react when the information available to general public when it can be used against the public. The journalists are called the fourth estate (after executive , legislature and judiciary). They have the power to make opinions in public. Their active participation against corruption is necessary (like in adarsh building scam and like in tehelka case). Their responsibility is not to entertain people like an item song…they should be the ‘elites’ who enlighten people about their rights. What public want and what’s good for public are not same always.
People might be interested in topics like, if the actor is using the same company innerwear he is brand ambassador for, that’s the topic for the shows like coffee with karan and movie-promotion shows. The topic for the news channels would be the actor’s wealth and if he is paying the tax or not.
t was proven 5 years back that caste lost his control over Bihar politics and its proved once again. 