I wish to bring to your notice that...

News channels are NOT supposed to take sides. They must report facts as they are. They may be used as a platform to voice public opinion, but NOT their own opinion.

Watching Star News report Sanjeev Nanda's case this afternoon was slightly disturbing. The channel was clearly dead against him. 

Hullo? 

Can we please leave some things to the judiciary?

I think it's pretty clear that news reporting has gone from bad to worse in the last few years. Though ideally, we could strike a balance, I preferred the boring fact-type news to the current trend of interesting spicy-juicy-gossipy-MALICIOUS-type news.

The then President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in a speech he gave in Hyderabad said, "I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper... It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Why are we so NEGATIVE?"

I more than agree with the editors of the Israeli newspaper, and with our ex-President. Not only does the media concentrate on all that goes wrong, but exaggerates it too. Why? Because WE, as people, have developed a near-fond feeling for negativity. Unacknowledged, but there all the same.

Do these people who run news channels, edit newspapers, even realize the mass of people they're reaching out to! A simple thing like a typo doesn't do a thing to discredit a newspaper report. If I wrote something that's going to be read by thousands of people across the length and breadth of the country, I would make sure it's PERFECT. Does the fact that your articles come up every other day and mine don't justify your imperfection? And I will reserve my comments on the many varities of utterly incompetent news readers/reporters we have for fear of being more critical than suits me.

Every badly made ad perturbs me. If you get screen time on national television is THIS what you want to show? Some of them like Vodafone, Raymonds, and Saint Gobain make brilliant ads. Most others are certifiably C-grade. 

I wish to bring to your notice the sheer importance of screen time on national television! Are we really incapable of making better use of it? Or do we not care at all? Or do we just not 'notice'?