One of my recent exercise was to find houses without a TV reception dish. Out of about three hundred houses in our neighbourhood, I found only one house, without it.
It was the cable TV first, now it is the wireless connectivity!
There is a rapid change in the way we are connected to the world of news and views.
Anna and I watch news most evenings in the common English news channels. We are appalled at the way the good practices of courteous dialogue, polite disagreements, or presentation of news in an unbiased manner are done away with by these channels! The anchors convey intimidating and unsettling attitude to those interviewed and they succumb and resort to using hostile and confrontational language!
It is occasional that we come across two people debate on an issue form an opposing view point with respect and accommodation! The anchors and the producers behave like investigators and produce a programme which is no good as a model for debate!
The language of arrogance and challenge when resorted to in journalism, it creates fear, anger and distortion of truth!
I wish there will be more who would let the TV channels know of the disservice they do with this competitive journalistic style!
M.C.Mathew( text and photo)
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