Is there too much Bollywood in the news?
“When a dog bites a man, it’s not news, but when a man bites a dog, it’s news.”
In Bollywood, who bites is breaking news. Whether it’s Rakhi Sawant’s tantrums on Valentine’s Day or April Fool’s Day, a tattoo on Amrita Arora’s butt or Saif Ali Khan’s hand, Mallika Sherawat’s or Aishwarya’s revealing short dresses Jodha The royal Rai jewels, news channels and page 3 sections of newspapers have devoted most of their manpower, time and space to Bollywood gossip.
I have grown up reading Hindi newspapers like Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran and Rajasthan Patrika. There were days when I would fight to read the color Sunday edition of these regional newspapers. Out of four pages, that is, a whole sheet of the newspaper, only one quarter was devoted to such gossip and the remaining three quarters were for intellectual or socio-spiritual articles, short stories and series by budding or established writers, poetry and books. for children. including section chacha chaudhary cartoon series, jokes, puzzles and many more games. It was enough entertainment for my innocent mind. It was the same for TV Channels or Channel quite. Wednesday and Friday chitrahar and the Sunday night movie was all we used to know about Bollywood. Yes, there was Filmfare and filmikaliyan too, but DD gave us a lot to talk about all week.
That’s where today’s news channels and newspapers are capitalizing. We strive to learn the personal life views of celebrities. We want to be like them and, to a certain extent, follow them, sometimes blindly. Now we don’t talk, we don’t share our thoughts and emotions; there is no outlet for our impulse to express. It’s just one-way traffic. We have become a garbage for all informational garbage. We are just listening. It’s a good habit, to be sure, but what about the expression? But when we hear 24×7, silly news about Amitabh Bhachan’s superstitious ritual of marrying Aishwarya Rai with a Banyan tree to save her child from her. Manglik effect, it’s too much to digest.
India is a country that is still in its nascent stage of development. It’s a transition period and too much is happening too fast. Here is Kalahandi and Colaba too. These places differ like light and dark. India can afford it, but Bharat cannot. Bharat still needs krishi darshan, fauji bhaiyon ke liye, yodo namak, chalien hum school and jachha-baccha tika-karan karykram. We need to improve the living conditions of more than half of our population and for this mass, Bollywood is nowhere, not even in their wild dreams. They want an average quality of life and Bollywood gossip is of no use to them.
The media must understand their social responsibilities: there is much more to it than covert operations and Bollywood. There are many channels totally dedicated to Bollywood news. So the so-called news channels have to stick to the hardest news. The current trend is an insult to journalism and reporting. For this!
