Saturday, December 5, 2009
Poor journalism, poor subjects..
I read a popular Tamil magazine regularly and few others occassionally. Last week I found the article of a cinema actress' article for four pages with full colour photos showing her exposing spaces and the pages were shining coated. And after a few pages I found a two page article which was a collection of 10 best poems (free verses) of a well talented young poet. All the ten verses were highly impressive. But these pages were printed in black and white and the pages were rough surfaces unlike the cinema actress' article's pages. The most irritating fact about the current Tamil magazines is that they give a lot of importance to hip showing actresses, junk cinema and useless interviews but they don't bother to give value and emphasis to good content and facts. A talented poet does not get even a good colour page article that the skin-showing actress gets. Same like the Tamil cinema, the Tamil magazines also have gone to the poor quality. When questioned about this they address policy as their 'marketing strategy'. Huh ! Excellent ! The respect on the press among the people is degrading. Journalism and journals have high responsiblities as much as the politicians but now they seem to have completely forgetten the word 'ethics'. I feel ashamed that these potential tamil journalsits are writing poor subjects that is hardly of any use to the society.
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I fully agree with you Prashanth. I very frequently come across students who are ethically, morally, emotionally and intellectually disturbed and get carried away by such junk. God! Pl save our young Indians.
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