Be it the nail biting match point played out by Sania and Mailk in media glare or images of fake eyelashes of Sunanda Pushkar and of a confident stubborn Tharoor that filled the flat screens for days, the fun doesn’t end. These days media gets their ‘stories’ (they are no more news) from a small birdie that tweets it out in 140 characters.
Tweeting - the neologism that feeds the new age news media in fact broadcasts to a global collective consciousness. A powerful set of 140 characters that can oust a minister in India and an attractive brand consultant in Dubai to lose her ‘sweat equity’.
I miss the good old ‘Doordarshan’ days. Even though they were heavily loaded with ‘Rajiv Gandhi’ PR, I wish I could switch on to a 8.40 pm news read by Salma Sultan (with a rose nestled in her hair) or to the English verion read by G.B. Komal Singh and the path breaking ‘World this week’ from Prannoy Roy.
But in equal measure also acknowledge how the same new age media was instrumental in bringing final justice to Jessica Lal today after an agonizing 11 years.
1 comment:
Lady Pushkar... now she sure is a stunner, fake eyelashes, fake surname or whatever. Cant blame Mr.Tharoor.
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