Mind Molestation

I have been reading a lot of different versions of the abbreviated term CWG and all of them are right in their own way. I can totally understand the outrage against the organizers, the planning committee and the country on the whole. The British media has come out strongly exposing the lapse in preparations and basic infrastructure. The Delhi CWG mess up has currently taken up the pole position in the top stories listed on even the BBC website. I can imagine news channels back home like Times Now, Headlines Today and the most disgusting of them all, TV9 covering this issue for at least 23 hours in a day. To be frank this is the kind of news that the media tends to hunt for like a bloodhound. But when such a news is actually served on a platter with an option to "eat all you want", the situation looks more messed up than it actually is. I still remember a day when TV9 ran the news of a stray dog biting a man for the whole day. Can it get more lame than that? Doesn't it raise the question of credibility and the quality of a news channel? Or does it also imply that we derive pleasure in not only watching something as worthless as this but also in bitching about it being played over and over and over with a caption of breaking news?

The media has always been criticized for being irresponsible. Lets face the facts. One needs money to run a channel or newspaper and the funding for which is provided by the wealthy politicians, celebrities and businessmen. At the end of the day, media ends up being run by money. So people with money have the power to manipulate the news that comes out. So, if one channel run by political party  X says that a dog bit a man, its rival channel run by a  political party Y says that the man bit the dog, speaking of which Man Bites Dog(1992) is an amazing movie, not for the fainthearted though. So the media is actually used to boost their PR activities using the news as a medium. So to summarize, the grief of the common man is used as a medium to boost a party's image in an intention to ultimately get on the good books of the common man. To quote another such example, the recent attempt to burn Quran by a Pastor in Florida was classic example of a highly renowned channel like CNN lowering its standards. If such an incident had not been covered at all, it would have not encouraged any unwanted publicity. Things people do to be on TV...Uffff. If anyone from any of the famous news channels are reading this, I'm planning to use the pages of Mein Kamph as toilet paper next week. Would surely appreciate some airtime but I have to do this before zee Germans get here. The quality of news has stooped so low that news channels are nowadays running special programmes on all the different reality shows in that country, giving viewers of the summary of events that happened in that week. Very soon we might even see special news reports summarizing the attire and the hot quotient of the newsreaders inviting viewers to vote for their favorite one.

Have you ever watched something on a news channel for an hour and felt like you wasted that whole hour? Well, its called as mind molestation and in the extreme cases might lead to mind "the act of having sex"ing. The media thrives on its ability to carry out such hideous crimes, show the grief of the public after molesting them and gets to walk away with a rise in TRP and revenue. Why wouldn't someone want to get involved in such a business? After all you will be the puppet master, but in this case you get an added added advantage of having control over the mental state of your puppets. Ultimately, we end up eating whatever is fed by media and our thinking will be influenced by the channels that we favor. Gone are those days of having old men and fully covered women reading out news. I guess the only upside of this is one gets to see young female newsreaders with provoking necklines and their insatiable thirst to talk about bikini clad Bollywood heroines making you fantasize about some girl on girl action. You have been mind molested yet again. 

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