Ok the Big B is here, in TOI today, maybe to thank us for giving him popularity for free.
At the fourth floor, in the Zoom office, with cameras zooming at him from every angle is the super, over hyped star of the millennium.
Remember Abbys baby’s wedding? The star really had a show down when he got his security guards bash up the journalists. Remember how injured was the ego of the journalist fraternity, print and electronic alike. And yet today, the same man walks with his head high into the glamourous building of the undisputed media leader, The Times of India. Its just one over hyped medium attracting another of its kind.
Where has the hurt disappeared? Why is our memory short-lived? Why is ego dismissed in the regular deals of existence? Why can’t the media stop chasing her assaulters? Why cant media for once have a stand with a spine?
For the way he treated the journos, he should have been banned by every media house and boycotted by every space seller in the media. We need no brats filling up our pages. We need no such thankless endorsers.
Alas! The media forgets its ground and forms a beeline to grab the celebs on its apparently-sacred-quark/slot-created-space.
The medium is a funny place, no ethics; no it’s all about selling your space.
May the media rise up to its role, May the mighty power of media command respect, May the crap rest in peace…
Amen
And for you Mr. Big B, you’re too small with etiquettes.
The grapevine tells me that he is here to give an interview and is apologetic for his behaviour and blah…
(Sigh) how easy right. Overused word-Sorry! Am sure he will get away with this one. Darn you!
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But why did the media have to chase the wedding with so much of gusto? How about conceding to the fact that the media did invade his privacy. Ok, his reaction of bashing up the jurnos wasn't a stellar example of etiquette, but then you gotta see the other side too.
And just for the record, I'm sick of the media hype about the Bachhan family....get a life you jurnos!
There is something called as an Entertainment beat, which if a journo is working for has to chase celebs, you see if have a very restrictive defn of entertainment. So, they were just doing their jobs, as for the star, shooing away the media wasn't the call to be taken, it was about dealing with the situation with some grace, if anything.
If he wasnt publicity hungry, he wouldn't his son parade on the road on the white mare and least of all come to the media house and offer his apologies and also give gas on the status of his daughter-in-law.
its the law of the jungle, pl get yourself acquainted with this...one depends on the other for its survival.
As for journos getting life goes, they were obliging their duties, its not all sane and idealist out there...do we live a clinical existence?
Politicians and journos are the fav dart boards of the public...take a look at what goes behind the print before you talk about journos getting a life...
its the same people who read entertainment and its the same you who crib about it...come aboard and taste the potion...you will get a fair idea..
Love,
Neha
I am aware of the entertainment beat, and I do not support it as it is a waste of reams of newspaper. The mere fact that my existence might be a tad exciting doesn't entitle the media to barge into my privacy and convert it into popular fodder for newspapers.
It boils down to the point that the media is glaringly wrong on many occasions, and you cannot give justifications by saying that the law of the jungle requires that one depends on the other for fodder...we are not symbiotic creatures that one's existence demands the existence of the other... The wider social ramifications here are that anyone would hardly flich before invading someone else's space. The media chooses and selectively covers "issues" on its own and often passes it off as "popular choice" when there has been no logical way of even considering whether the public has been given an option to think for itself and form its own opinions!
I take back my remark that journos need to get a life...what I meant was that there are many other pertinent issues awaiting coverage, and believe me it wouldn't hurt anyone to be unaware of Paris Hilton's lunch and dinner menu in jail...what I fail to understand is the reason behind the promotion of this mind-numbing "news item".
I don't see anything wrong in aiming for idealism. In fact it is essential when the other option is being mired in a self-perpetuating cycle of hogwosh which tries to be passed of as "quality". Give me a strong counterargument anyday over the dried out line of "thats the way the world goes".
I stand by my earlier comment.
umm.. i dunno.. isn't every business whorish in nature? i dunno.. i see not much of a difference
yes it is...all is but prostitution in varied forms, degree is what matters...
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