Ashbhishek, Shilpa Shetty, Big Brother - Indian News is Losing It !!

The past few days have seen intense activity on the media front starting with the Aishwarya Rai,Abhishek Bachchan Engagement and now the controversy regarding Shilpa Shetty being racially abused on the British TV show Big Brother. All this bombardment of the same news by the tv channels and the newspapers just makes you think that the 4th Estate is essentially losing it. They are certainly doing a terrible job in their bids to outdo each other and in the process are feeding the viewers with senseless and incorrect information.

Take the Shilpa Shetty row for instance, it’s a simple case of her being bullied and being treated shabbily because 90% of the other contestants on the show are just jealous of her beauty and fame. The world of YouTube is flooded with the Big Brother videos and this one actually gives you the real story,the fact being that there was hardly any racial abuse.

The Indian Channels are sure to come up with a few debates regarding this where “supposedly” intelligent and famous people would spend more than hour discussing this whole issue. Big Brother is a show where the aim is to oust your housemates in any manner possible, so technically everything is fair. There are people who would actually kill to earn money, so calling someone a dog ain’t really racial abuse,especially when you have a couple of women fighting and arguing.

So the Indian News Channels really need to do a little bit of homework before they come out spreading the news and they need to ensure that they aren’t hyping one piece of news too much. Ditto for our “great” politicians who issue statements at the drop of a hat without finding out the actual reality first.

Maybe it’s time we had some Citizen Journalists reporting some news,after all most of the news in the papers these days is straight out of some blog or website.

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