Newspapers having the most sensational news they could ever make.
Videos focusing either on the frozen corpse or some politician or celebrity who talks about y they think such an incident ocured.
Everythig seem to create sensation nd everythin seem to b sensational too that day.
' Dat Day ' referes to 30th sept 2009,the worrisome incident wich made us all emotional..The "Thekkadi Incident".. One of the worst incidents kerala have faced.
I kept on presing ma pgm button on ma remote to all those news channels. I cud see news channelz even having debate on the topic "shud the driver b blamed"( i could see some wrangle 2) nd the other having a reporter using all dat sensational language wen the video focused on a father whose son's corpse the entire crew was searching for(It was as if i was watching a entire spectacle).
As time passed by news chaneels got al wrought up. Focusing on the politicians who proudly speaks through that giant mikes fixed in front of them about the money they decieded to give to those who lost thier beloved ones.Videos even focusing on dat happy chat time of politicians in between dat worrisome environment.
Days Passed By ...This incident was different in different people.. For channels a mere news... For some,one of those hot topics they can talk about .. For some a story wich they can give as an exemplar for d quote "past is past".. For Some( who used thier creativity hard) made it into a jest wich i got as sms.
On the other side i could see people writhe nd some pited for thier misfortune.
Wen people have all those different stories they heard or read from newspapers as hot topics to talk about..there is a father crying for his 4 year old baby whose corpse the entire crew was stil searching for ..
Wen people wrangle about whom to b blamed , the passengers or d driver... we have a mother standing al numb by seeing her 2 daughters all covered in white before her on the other side.
Wen the politicians wre proudly announcing about the money they decided to give, i cud see a man who kept on cursing the god in making him 1 of dose who got saved from dat dreadful incident wich tuk away al 9 of them from his family
I dono wen the politicians wil realize dat thr r sme things money can never buy
I dono wen media wil realize dat victims shud b given thier own space rather interviewing a mother who lost her only daughter to make thier news channel the most sensational one(rather giving importance to that mothers sentiments)
I donno wen people wil realize the value of humanity rather making a jest out of it .
I Never Thought selfishness wud go to such an extent whr society wud start playing with others emotions for tags lik "The Best Media", "The Best Leader", "The Most Sensational News" nd so on..
Al i have to say is I Pity Dem All..
really nice bhavnaaa....nice..interesting
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ReplyDeletethis is one,i finally and actually liked (the other comments were diplomacy to say the most) !
ReplyDeleteNow,only if you read more (sigh) would we have had better usages :-P
keep going!
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ReplyDeleteHalo.. Kindly read on the topic tht you have written.. again n again.. n think.. what have you done.. ?? sympathizing or empathizing the media , the politicians were ther doin ther part.. what were yu doing ?? randomly switching channels.. n critising all those who were doin what they cud ?????????
ReplyDeleteha!! i mite not have the power to talk for it , but if i had .. i wudn actualy emphasis on the money i wud give or enjoyng myself at a funeral .. nd i sympathized the media for trying to make it al sensational :)
ReplyDeleteMedia is a business just like anything else like making coffins or war-ammo. You get to watch the grief stricken mother interviewed or the celebrity politician boasting of the monetary compensation; because and only because u demand it, with ur power to swap the news channels whenever u can. You can always choose not to watch it. It is the stories and the sensationalism tat are worth the time and money in the media business, not humane values or other sentiments. Choose yourself. And the politicians, were they proudly announcing the compensation? At the end of the day its the compensation alone tat will aid/console the grief stricken family at building a life void of their loved/lost ones.
ReplyDeleteps: This is not a plain one-sided view k.
food for thought.... :)...really nice post... amy be the best in ur blog . I can understand it quite well coz i was once in a disaster-site Mangalore air crash and i was transporting some cabinet ministers from Bangalore to mangalore and their talks and thought process were pathetic . They were more interested in the political after-effects.Even media was behaving the same way as u've potraid in the post
ReplyDeletevery well written
anyways