In a democratic setup like India, media is widely acknowledged as the fourth pillar of the constitution, the three being legislation, executive and judiciary. It is also expected to play a role of a watchdog, if you read between the lines it would mean that even if a situation arises where the three pillars of constitution are corrupt and rotten to the core, media has to don the role of a crusader and take the nation to the safety and protect its citizens.
If media has to play be the sole crusader of the democracy then it needs to distant itself from any ideology(read as political party), which might be easy in theory and hard to practice.
We can easily name the print media organizations and the political parties which are hand in glove,
thus we find the magazines being almost reduced to the role of party newsletter, my question is why has the journalism reached such abysmal lows? One doesn't need to be an avid reader of the magazines or newspapers to conclude my statement, even if s/he picks a random issue/copy of any magazine one can notice a visible tilt towards whatever ideology they subscribe to, in their reporting/ editorial. This ideological tilt is especially very high during the election times.
Now comes the electronic media, where they have made a dirty habit of glorifying violence, carrying out sting operations whenever the ad revenue dips or 'TRP' has fallen below the rival channel. Why do they do this? Yes I agree to the popular view of most editors that they are 'here to make business and not to do some charity', but business at the cost of what? Has the audience ever asked them to show everything, they are currently showing to fill up their airtime.
Who is to be blamed for this ruckus?
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