Is it that i've become intolerant-wc i just love if it sounds so-or rather the truth is that ALL TV anchors & reporters look alike & sound horsily LOUD!! they're like shouting into ur face...outshouting each other, huge frowns on their faces, as if the world has fallen & they are THE only ones to witness it. On top of it they are THE ones NOT informing u, but TELLING it to you the way they WANT it to be...
The truth is that if Barkha breaks news on one channels-YES with that frown, u have rajdeep do the same, Ashuto-o-osh on another, some bhaiya on Aaj Tak (definitely NOT punya prasoon), Dibang on another & someone on star. If a person hears them all on various screens they sound the same-SHOUTING/BELLOWING wt their lungs bursting out...Hands vigorously moving around in air & ofcourse the famous BLINKING...& at the end u wonder if anyone has given u the REAL information...What's with Indian TV & shouting? they all also look alike...Its NOT a joke...bcoz their expressions are the same.
But why are they telling us? I thot TV is informing thru' visuals, showing pictures & frames that speak LOUDER than their voices & words! But sadly the focus instead of visuals is the loud sounding 'reporter.'
The channels have to grow out of cutting live chats wt their reporters all the while. This ideally should happen if the reporter is on the way, they are yet covering/shooting the incident & meanwhile, the channels cut live to their journos or take phone-ins. NOT constantly cut to their reporters...
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Journalist's tales.....
when i joined journalism i had absolutely insane, cynical & rude (mildly put) seniors who imbibed a certain spirit in us, made us sit up & think abt our profession, that we MUST have a certain discipline, passion & COMMITMENT -altho' many among them did NOT possess it is another issue...
We were put through gruelling times & believe me it was UNFAIR...seniors who ridiculed our ideas but passed them onto someone else in a jiffy! Seniors who rubbished our ideas & few months later we'd see someone else's by line to the same story suggested!! worse still seniors who said our stories were worth trashing & would carry the same day wt their own bylines!! Yet, these very seniors taught us a lot thru' their example & otherwise.
Some rare good ones were confident of themselves, tore our copies and made us re-write in simple conversational language...made us unlearn all that we'd learnt. Some even led by example. We could discuss the world wt them without having to fear ridicule. They taught us to produce a 'dhasu' story! They helped us smell news that's likely to become BIG....
Even today if there's anything that makes me smile sincerely, is when i get a dhasu story, covered wt the same amount of passion that I had began my career with. Today i'm a dinosaur!!! Old & forgotten species..Yes in the day new era of news people like me are nearly forgotten.
Today-spare me if a sound like an old Parsi aunty-(wc i'm proud if i do sound), MOST news organisations are hiring young, just-out-of-college kids, anorexic, who wear minimal clothes wt shakal but NOT necessarily akkal. Many who are abso immature & to top all they are in journalism for MONEY & QUICK FAME...what quality of news are we going to expect? They are asked to bring bytes & stories are made like desk-top pieces in the studios.
There was a sonic boom- a ball of fire wt a loud sound- airforce exercise wc was to take place across the seas but mistakenly was conducted across the residential areas of Karjat in October 2oo4. News telecasted- one channel said a Plane crashed & later at least apologised. A leading Hindi news channel said one plane crashed into three pieces but NO clue of the passengers. The sabse tez said they sighted an UFO!! Yes...then for 3 days the channels forgot all abt this news. No astronaut, scientist or minister saying anything. It was later confirmed that it was a sonic boom!
One more black day was when the Mah CM was to be declared, the news reporters fm channels were in their rush to get exclusive news first. so they prepared the son-in-law of the former CM (now central power min) as their main source!! I was moving b/w the State assembly, Cong & NCP office. By afternoon i was informed by my friends in Cong & NCP that Vilasrao had signatures of 47 MLAs & he had staked claim to become the CM else he would cause rebellion.
It was the BLACKEST day for TV news. Sabse tez went abt giving detailed report & live phone-ins abt how Sushilkumar Shinde had become the CM...i was in NCP when my friend fm Star news called & asked how come my favourite bet had lost the chance ...I told him he had wrong info. NDTV ran similar news but thks to Rajdeep he pulled up the local bureau head (famous crime reporter) & they actually apologised. He ridiculed that their source was son-in-law of shinde since he proved to be very stupid & dumb! pranab mukherjee had filled in rajdeep wt all the details..... others forgot all about apologising.
Recently again sab se tez declared that the living deputy chairman of state legislative council had died-vasant davkhare-when the person who died was NCP min vasant chavan.
More recently when Mahajan was shot by his brother channels ran a breaking news that he moved his eyes & fingers!!
Sadly whatever may b the case I don't hear many complaining....
We were put through gruelling times & believe me it was UNFAIR...seniors who ridiculed our ideas but passed them onto someone else in a jiffy! Seniors who rubbished our ideas & few months later we'd see someone else's by line to the same story suggested!! worse still seniors who said our stories were worth trashing & would carry the same day wt their own bylines!! Yet, these very seniors taught us a lot thru' their example & otherwise.
Some rare good ones were confident of themselves, tore our copies and made us re-write in simple conversational language...made us unlearn all that we'd learnt. Some even led by example. We could discuss the world wt them without having to fear ridicule. They taught us to produce a 'dhasu' story! They helped us smell news that's likely to become BIG....
Even today if there's anything that makes me smile sincerely, is when i get a dhasu story, covered wt the same amount of passion that I had began my career with. Today i'm a dinosaur!!! Old & forgotten species..Yes in the day new era of news people like me are nearly forgotten.
Today-spare me if a sound like an old Parsi aunty-(wc i'm proud if i do sound), MOST news organisations are hiring young, just-out-of-college kids, anorexic, who wear minimal clothes wt shakal but NOT necessarily akkal. Many who are abso immature & to top all they are in journalism for MONEY & QUICK FAME...what quality of news are we going to expect? They are asked to bring bytes & stories are made like desk-top pieces in the studios.
There was a sonic boom- a ball of fire wt a loud sound- airforce exercise wc was to take place across the seas but mistakenly was conducted across the residential areas of Karjat in October 2oo4. News telecasted- one channel said a Plane crashed & later at least apologised. A leading Hindi news channel said one plane crashed into three pieces but NO clue of the passengers. The sabse tez said they sighted an UFO!! Yes...then for 3 days the channels forgot all abt this news. No astronaut, scientist or minister saying anything. It was later confirmed that it was a sonic boom!
One more black day was when the Mah CM was to be declared, the news reporters fm channels were in their rush to get exclusive news first. so they prepared the son-in-law of the former CM (now central power min) as their main source!! I was moving b/w the State assembly, Cong & NCP office. By afternoon i was informed by my friends in Cong & NCP that Vilasrao had signatures of 47 MLAs & he had staked claim to become the CM else he would cause rebellion.
It was the BLACKEST day for TV news. Sabse tez went abt giving detailed report & live phone-ins abt how Sushilkumar Shinde had become the CM...i was in NCP when my friend fm Star news called & asked how come my favourite bet had lost the chance ...I told him he had wrong info. NDTV ran similar news but thks to Rajdeep he pulled up the local bureau head (famous crime reporter) & they actually apologised. He ridiculed that their source was son-in-law of shinde since he proved to be very stupid & dumb! pranab mukherjee had filled in rajdeep wt all the details..... others forgot all about apologising.
Recently again sab se tez declared that the living deputy chairman of state legislative council had died-vasant davkhare-when the person who died was NCP min vasant chavan.
More recently when Mahajan was shot by his brother channels ran a breaking news that he moved his eyes & fingers!!
Sadly whatever may b the case I don't hear many complaining....
blast from past
the July 11, 2006 blasts in Mumbai surely rocked the city...whatever anyone may say....damn all those 'spirit of Mumbai' ball talks...people have NO goddamn choice but to go for work. We work for shit organisations where bosses are complete arse holes whether govt, NGO or otherwise...anyone person says they can't make it either they cut half day or full day pay. this is the fate of a normal working class person in our city.
As for us journalists forget...we are breed that sucks!! we want to milk the cow but in such a shoddy manner that the cow gets bored and either dies or just sleeps halfway. Most of the channels went on about the helping hand...wc was true..but NO ONE showed or spoke of how the dead were not spared by the public. The late hockey player who died was fleeced by the very public that tried to save the victims!!
His gold chain, credit card, money??? we don't even leave the dead alone, why blame Mahesh Bhatt, at least he's pulling out the skeletons fm his own closet.
As for the investigations?? so much left said the better. Within two hours (thanks to the pressure fm Media & public) trains resumed. London metro was closed for 10 days. I agree we can't afford to close down all our lines. But that part of track should have been cordone off for 10 days. No trace we have...
Later people who were with SIMI, some active some former were picked up left right & centre. thousands have been rounded off & taken to jail...illegally detained. Some beaten & abused. Even siblings of the arrested were NOT spared...i can vouch that in one family there are black sheep & often the relatives need not know what the trouble maker has been upto. Sometimes they may be aware but have distanced themselves...its possible & very normal...
May be the ivnestigating officers are from some other planet or world..who believe the alleged offender's family is equally responsible!!
who are the REAL culprits?? What is their Main crime?? does the ATS know? we wonder. Worse still are the immature abso ridiculous journos who have been writing & showing...8 days & ATS has had NO breakthrough...10 days & no arrests still???? what is this a merry circus?
Do these journalists realise a terror attack may take years or NEVER to get to the root of this whole act/crime? How nonsensical is this pressure campaign?? Do the editors who are supposed to be seasoned journos even ask their reporters to file such stories? in fact these silly editors should be pulling up their reporters for reporting so immaturedly...
But when u hire novices and don't train them this is what one should expect.
As for us journalists forget...we are breed that sucks!! we want to milk the cow but in such a shoddy manner that the cow gets bored and either dies or just sleeps halfway. Most of the channels went on about the helping hand...wc was true..but NO ONE showed or spoke of how the dead were not spared by the public. The late hockey player who died was fleeced by the very public that tried to save the victims!!
His gold chain, credit card, money??? we don't even leave the dead alone, why blame Mahesh Bhatt, at least he's pulling out the skeletons fm his own closet.
As for the investigations?? so much left said the better. Within two hours (thanks to the pressure fm Media & public) trains resumed. London metro was closed for 10 days. I agree we can't afford to close down all our lines. But that part of track should have been cordone off for 10 days. No trace we have...
Later people who were with SIMI, some active some former were picked up left right & centre. thousands have been rounded off & taken to jail...illegally detained. Some beaten & abused. Even siblings of the arrested were NOT spared...i can vouch that in one family there are black sheep & often the relatives need not know what the trouble maker has been upto. Sometimes they may be aware but have distanced themselves...its possible & very normal...
May be the ivnestigating officers are from some other planet or world..who believe the alleged offender's family is equally responsible!!
who are the REAL culprits?? What is their Main crime?? does the ATS know? we wonder. Worse still are the immature abso ridiculous journos who have been writing & showing...8 days & ATS has had NO breakthrough...10 days & no arrests still???? what is this a merry circus?
Do these journalists realise a terror attack may take years or NEVER to get to the root of this whole act/crime? How nonsensical is this pressure campaign?? Do the editors who are supposed to be seasoned journos even ask their reporters to file such stories? in fact these silly editors should be pulling up their reporters for reporting so immaturedly...
But when u hire novices and don't train them this is what one should expect.
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