WHY HAS THE MEDIA BECOME SO BIASED?

All our lives, whenever we have heard the word ‘Media’, the word unbiased have automatically came in our mind. It is known to be the 4th pillar of democracy and is required to be completely free of any kind of external influence or control. Only through media, it is possible to provide people the knowledge related to the country and world they live in along with every other aspects of life.

But, what will happen when this media only becomes toxic and start giving fake news which can poison people’s mind as well as start riots all over the county ? What will happen when this media will start working for political parties and organisations just for some money and power ? What will happen when the channels will ignore serious issues and focus more on TRP ? Try to think about these.

Well, to find the answers of these questions, you don’t need to go too far in your mind palace. The answers lie within your home only. Home? Yeah, I am not kidding. Go to your drawing room, start your television and open the news channels. Aha, here are your answers. Scroll through every news channel and you will find the reality. You’re not going to see anyone talking about progress or development of the nation, no one is showing the condition of education and health facilities of the country. They are holding debates about habits of celebrities, how many glasses of water does a politician drink and making different people fight against each other in the name of religion. Such is the 4th pillar of democracy!

By definition, Journalism is the unbiased presentation of facts and figures. But now a days, it has become the presentation of “HOW TO EARN MONEY AND TRP BY SELLING VIRTUE”. It is evident how the reporters and news presenters openly favor a political party without any fear or shame. They don’t hesitate to insult or defend anyone publicly on their channels. The only possible reason of this can be the viewership they are getting by holding debates like this because people love watching entertainment and drama. They like watching a journalist and a news channel openly celebrating the win of a political party in election and heaping praises of ministers, don’t they ?

It is really disgraceful to see how low these so called ‘journalists’ and news channel have gone just for the sake of TRP and popularity. No one here cares for the people’s welfare or what kind of news to be shown to let them form an opinion on their own about the things happening in the country rather than imposing theirs on them. They take money from organizations and influence the public to support them on their behalf. It’s like media have lost their actual purpose of being unbiased and have now walked in a path where nothing except viewership and popularity matters to them. They should know the fact that journalism is not about sharing your views and opinions rather it is about showing the correct news to people without any alteration in it. It’s really disgusting and they should be called out for this.

I get deeply saddened by this situation and aspire to become a journalist in the future. I yearn to establish a media where things go as it should be. I hope to bring back the unbiasedness of the media and showing developmental news which actually affects people’s lives rather than complicating them further. I want to speak about serious issues that surrounds our society and play a role in improving people’s lives. I just want a world where the public starts recognizing these ‘journalists’ as fraud and stop getting influenced by them. I want the media to be completely independent of any organization and produce relevant and factually true news which help people getting exposed to reality and inspire them to contribute in the development of the country.

Concluding, I will just like to say that ‘MEDIA PLAYS A VERY ESSENTIAL ROLE IN SHAPING A COUNTRY’S DESTINY AS WELL AS ITS PRESENT AND IT SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO CAN EVEN GO TO ANY LOW JUST FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY’

- With all Regards

Tejaswini Sinha