Lets discuss the what is happening in the news channels. Sometimes i feel very irritated with news channels accounts of new murders and rapes. Every news is breaking news it seems. I have closely watched the news tv scene in India and it seems that only crime sells here nothing else. there is no scope for positive news. being a journalist myself, i am not very optimistic of the change in the news scene in the near future. in the arushi case, the media played a positive role as well as negative. Positive in the sense that it created a pressure on the police to verify the facts again and again and negative in the sense that it made a big hype around a tragedy. The girl who was killed that night was just 14 years old and she was projected as a character less woman having affair with the servant who was killed in the same way. I dont know the reason of all this frenzy over the tragedy but i know the media inside and out. How journalists are behaving these days as they are criminals themselves. Not only this, there was a channel which telecast a sleazy mms saying it was arushi's mms having sex. Even then the channel is still on air. How can they tarnish the image of a child without proper verification.
Lets see what happens with news channels in the future but i am very sure that media is loosing its credibility and the day will come when readers will be verifying the news before believing it.