Open a news channel and it is commonplace to see flashes of "Breaking News" or "Exclusive Coverage" n then the anchor proceeding o dish out repeated lines of the incident describing the position of e cameraman and quoting the obvious for his presumed dim witted viewers and pushing his correspondent to question harangued victims things which are irrelevant.
6 to 12 hours into the incident, you will have known by the real time expert analysis of the situation regardless of the expert's expertise. To add to your brain cells, you will also have added the astrological point in the incident followed by the future repercussions and past instances regarding the incident. had you been patient enough, all similar past incidents, and even the perpetrators of he crime will have been identified and you the viewer will have all the lines etched into your mind.
now with all arms laid out, i arrive at my discourse...
Pick up any socially active person concerned about the state of the nation ad its people, his view on public memory will be, the people tend to forget very easily they compromise...
Wondering one day listening to a new anchor airing the same view i started thinking about the truth of the statement and in a way it made sense. This made me ponder over he next question "why is it so?" So the past month all i did was open news channels at random and see what they report or rather how they do it. The observation its the first two paragraphs of this write up, followed by a group discussion of limited time involving people from various fields and load of free time or deputed by their group clamoring at each other ad making words flow as if there is no limit of idiocracy the viewer can bear.
Human nature is getting used to a rhythm. News media provide for that by shelling out explosive headlines which we get used to. And for any soul still getting worked up, the extensive analysis and pinning down on criminals in a matter of hours give him a sense of satisfaction that the criminals have been identified ad now just catch them and make them face trial.
Remembrance is always attached to unfulfilled needs, in case of news your all needs are fulfilled so why remember more of it.
Gone are the good old days of print media where exclusive coverage of a news took days at a stretch and hence remained longer in the public memory...
No comments:
Post a Comment