It seems like every time the name of this man will be dropped from the squad, every Tom, Dick and Harry would start speculating about his retirement. Recently I saw that one of the channels conducting poll on whether Sourav should call it a day now. This is preposterous. Conducting polls to make someone take retirement and putting a player of Sourav’s stature in a spot position.
We belong to a country where we boast of knowing ways of treating our seniors well. But Sourav Ganguly’s case tells me of something else. We must have known it in the past but TRP and Bytes have made us forget those mannerisms. Electronic media, especially the 24×7 news channels, are pushing the society to be judgmental about every issue. Whether it’s the Arushi-Hemraj murder case or Roger Federer slipping from no.1 spot hence starting to write his career off, until he defends his US Open title; the electronic media just wants to pass judgment on each and every issue and sometimes without doing proper research. Because of this kind of trend, the print media also have to fall into the line to cater to the needs of the audience or reader, to keep their paper going.
Newspaper and news channel, whose job is to give news and not to speculate, have suddenly changed its role. It’s now more into speculations and rumor mongering. In the times of crisis the govt. must take the news channels off- air. As speculation ends, things can function properly. It would avert a disaster for sure. Because for exclusive footage, god knows they can go to any extent, just as they stage manages sting operations.
If the media has run out of issues, why don’t they call it a day? Instead they should not discuss people, their life or career on primetime to fill the slot. What kind of new arguments can they come up with in defense and against the dropping of Sourav from the Irani trophy? The forums have not sounded any different from the last ones, since he was dropped at the behest of the then coach and selector, Greg Chapell and Kiran More respectively. He has been picked up and dropped quite a time and all those discussions haven't come up with any new suggestion. May be Navjot Singh Sidhu have quoted different proverb each time; that would be the only difference.
Don’t the anchor and the producer get tired of this business; certainly the audience does including me. Give the audience and Sourav a break. When he will have to retire he will, but this kind of pressure tactics can make his determination to play grow stronger and inspire him to better his form. So, media must stop speculating and start reporting, for a change.
We belong to a country where we boast of knowing ways of treating our seniors well. But Sourav Ganguly’s case tells me of something else. We must have known it in the past but TRP and Bytes have made us forget those mannerisms. Electronic media, especially the 24×7 news channels, are pushing the society to be judgmental about every issue. Whether it’s the Arushi-Hemraj murder case or Roger Federer slipping from no.1 spot hence starting to write his career off, until he defends his US Open title; the electronic media just wants to pass judgment on each and every issue and sometimes without doing proper research. Because of this kind of trend, the print media also have to fall into the line to cater to the needs of the audience or reader, to keep their paper going.
Newspaper and news channel, whose job is to give news and not to speculate, have suddenly changed its role. It’s now more into speculations and rumor mongering. In the times of crisis the govt. must take the news channels off- air. As speculation ends, things can function properly. It would avert a disaster for sure. Because for exclusive footage, god knows they can go to any extent, just as they stage manages sting operations.
If the media has run out of issues, why don’t they call it a day? Instead they should not discuss people, their life or career on primetime to fill the slot. What kind of new arguments can they come up with in defense and against the dropping of Sourav from the Irani trophy? The forums have not sounded any different from the last ones, since he was dropped at the behest of the then coach and selector, Greg Chapell and Kiran More respectively. He has been picked up and dropped quite a time and all those discussions haven't come up with any new suggestion. May be Navjot Singh Sidhu have quoted different proverb each time; that would be the only difference.
Don’t the anchor and the producer get tired of this business; certainly the audience does including me. Give the audience and Sourav a break. When he will have to retire he will, but this kind of pressure tactics can make his determination to play grow stronger and inspire him to better his form. So, media must stop speculating and start reporting, for a change.
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You have a point. Both the print and electronic media have a strong influence over the masses. But much to be regretted, they have lost their path.
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