Media Monkeyism re-revisited
these links and articles tell it all.. the media monkeyism I had been mentioning about over the last few months
http://calamur.org/gargi/2008/12/02/week-1-post-2611-the-peddlers-of-death-the-media/
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He who controls the media controls the mind."
~ Jim Morrison.
An Israeli security expert had suggested a total TV blackout as the
jehadis wanted their Mumbai horror show to be put on display for the
world.
Our news channels had clue played into the terrorists' hands. ( The
jehadis chose the Thanksgiving weekend in the US to show India in a
poor light as an investment/business/tourist destination).
The terrorists wanted maximum TV eyeballs and they got it! The right
to security is above the right to information.
The "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality of television news is failing
us. TV's hunger for shocking pictures is distorting the world's' view
of terrorism in India, and its excessive use of terrorist video is
spreading propaganda of an even more damaging sort.
TV outlets run the risk of becoming mindless, amoral communications
tools by which terrorists advertise their brutality, enlarge their
reputations and belittle those who would protect us.
The Pew Charitable Trusts' 2004 report on the state of the U.S. media
found a troubling trend:
News outlets "disseminate" news from other sources rather than collect
it themselves, and the end video product often becomes repetitive,
chaotic and incoherent "raw news." Ultimately, news decisions are
surrendered to those who would manipulate it for their own ends. TV
may need to explore a new ethic — with some stern written-down
policies including:
1) A refusal to air video or other propaganda from terrorist Web sites
or other anonymous terrorist sources, except in the rare circumstances
that such information warns viewers of an imminent, credible threat.
2) A prohibition against using images that aren't shot by network or
other legitimate photographers. That means not using video shot by
terrorists or insurgents, because these images are suspect, often
staged for propaganda.
3) A new practice of prominently labeling all non-network, freelance
or bystander video — akin to the photo credit in print journalism — so
audiences can judge the source of each image.
4) A commitment to require the same sharp scrutiny and relentless
challenges to terrorists and insurgents that journalists traditionally
give our own government and military officials.
Well done Barkha (NDTV), Rajdeep (CNN-IBN) and Arnab (Times Now)!
Also your analysis was lame, hysterical and I had to surf the Web to
understand and analyze the situation and after effects.
Please don't sell your Motherland for TRPs.
PS: The London blasts had no images of the inside of the Tube.,_.___
http://calamur.org/gargi/2008/12/02/week-1-post-2611-the-peddlers-of-death-the-media/
---
He who controls the media controls the mind."
~ Jim Morrison.
An Israeli security expert had suggested a total TV blackout as the
jehadis wanted their Mumbai horror show to be put on display for the
world.
Our news channels had clue played into the terrorists' hands. ( The
jehadis chose the Thanksgiving weekend in the US to show India in a
poor light as an investment/business/tourist destination).
The terrorists wanted maximum TV eyeballs and they got it! The right
to security is above the right to information.
The "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality of television news is failing
us. TV's hunger for shocking pictures is distorting the world's' view
of terrorism in India, and its excessive use of terrorist video is
spreading propaganda of an even more damaging sort.
TV outlets run the risk of becoming mindless, amoral communications
tools by which terrorists advertise their brutality, enlarge their
reputations and belittle those who would protect us.
The Pew Charitable Trusts' 2004 report on the state of the U.S. media
found a troubling trend:
News outlets "disseminate" news from other sources rather than collect
it themselves, and the end video product often becomes repetitive,
chaotic and incoherent "raw news." Ultimately, news decisions are
surrendered to those who would manipulate it for their own ends. TV
may need to explore a new ethic — with some stern written-down
policies including:
1) A refusal to air video or other propaganda from terrorist Web sites
or other anonymous terrorist sources, except in the rare circumstances
that such information warns viewers of an imminent, credible threat.
2) A prohibition against using images that aren't shot by network or
other legitimate photographers. That means not using video shot by
terrorists or insurgents, because these images are suspect, often
staged for propaganda.
3) A new practice of prominently labeling all non-network, freelance
or bystander video — akin to the photo credit in print journalism — so
audiences can judge the source of each image.
4) A commitment to require the same sharp scrutiny and relentless
challenges to terrorists and insurgents that journalists traditionally
give our own government and military officials.
Well done Barkha (NDTV), Rajdeep (CNN-IBN) and Arnab (Times Now)!
Also your analysis was lame, hysterical and I had to surf the Web to
understand and analyze the situation and after effects.
Please don't sell your Motherland for TRPs.
PS: The London blasts had no images of the inside of the Tube.,_.___
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