Commercial Media
Media plays a significant role in our society today. It is all around us, from the shows we watch on television, the music we listen to on the radio, to the books and magazines we read each day. Television more so that any of the other medias achieves a myriad of different goals. These goals range from entertaining to educating. Various confines of education and entertainment are depicted in television. Recent trends show us entire media's goal is to earn money and lots of money. Television shows what sells. Newspaper prints what sells. There are very rare number of televisions, newspapers or any other medias who are following the ethics of media. This is very saddening developement. Television companies desgin their shows on TRP basis. Newspapers also have lost their credibility. Times Of India is best example for how commercial the media is. Its first page will always be having some kind of ad which will catch your eyes. They say its creative advertisement. I have never seen Times Of India without a semi nude picture of a Hollywood actress or model. TIO is filled with lots of masala. Other newspapers are forced to follow TOI to stay in market. If you hate to watch Ekta Kapoor's soaps on Star Plus and go to Star News you will find news on these SOAPS there. Why should news channels show what is happening in serials? don't they get other news to show? I think we have enough topics. If Amitabh Bachan's goes to hospital then you will find the news rolling all over the media, but thousands of middle class and poor people have thousands of problems and media has no time slot to focus on that. These news channels and Newspapers declare the suspects as Criminals, I don't know who gave them these rights. No media follows the story till end. We all forgot what happened to the Aurushi murder case and the Serial Killing case in Noida.
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