Media and journalism has seen a lot of ups and downs , also positive growth in the past two decades. With the opening up of the economy , media has had a greater role to play as a mediator between different nations. 

With power comes responsibility but power is heady at least to some extent. It may be humanly impossible to remain totally uneffected by power .

 Media are very powerful and can play a very big role in bringing about the changes in the society.   However, nowadays with so much competition among the media, journalism tends to become rather a collection of sensational news. And its so irritating when they do it out of proportion.

Media is powerful no doubt about it. But if it gives biased opinion people can make out and are capable of discounting it. Today the ptrint media is overtaken by the electronic media 

Right from the early days media has always been biased because initially there was no freedom. They had to report what was approve by the rulers.But, now they have become daring and bolder but bias continues . I am told that either top financiers, actors or  politicians fund certain media houses and thereby call the shots as well. Arnab had to face a lot of struggle because of his frontal attack on politicians, finally left TOI because it did not suit the owners ! Now his new venture is eagerly awaited.. 

usha manohar wrote:

Right from the early days media has always been biased because initially there was no freedom. They had to report what was approve by the rulers.But, now they have become daring and bolder but bias continues . I am told that either top financiers, actors or  politicians fund certain media houses and thereby call the shots as well. Arnab had to face a lot of struggle because of his frontal attack on politicians, finally left TOI because it did not suit the owners ! Now his new venture is eagerly awaited.. 

I agree. There are all kinds of media outlets. Some left-leaning, some right leaning. But what I've seen with Arnab is that he bashes all those who misuse their power, irrespective of the party. Its natural for him to make enemies, some of them considerably powerful. We need more of such journos.

Apparently , Arnab was shunted out of TOI because of certain celebrities who were affiliated to a political party . His style of being direct in his attack did not suit them 

Media is powerful as long as this is credible. Unfortunately, most of the media is increasing getting unreliable and incredible. Now the media is also seen more as entertainment than for getting true coverage of news. 

I was going through this article which gives the reason why India slipped to 136 out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index. It gives an account of how terrifying and challenging a journalist's work really is.

Link- http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-party-is-over-for-india-s-presstitutes/story-K2EEzHoeiFMl9LlXDnQdiI.html

Abhishek Sharma wrote:

I was going through this article which gives the reason why India slipped to 136 out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index. It gives an account of how terrifying and challenging a journalist's work really is.

Link- http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-party-is-over-for-india-s-presstitutes/story-K2EEzHoeiFMl9LlXDnQdiI.html

Thanks a lot for the link Abhishek, however when you post a link you need to save it so that it becomes live, like I have done below..

http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-party-is-over-for-india-s-presstitutes/story-K2EEzHoeiFMl9LlXDnQdiI.html

usha manohar wrote:

Abhishek Sharma wrote:

I was going through this article which gives the reason why India slipped to 136 out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index. It gives an account of how terrifying and challenging a journalist's work really is.

Link- http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-party-is-over-for-india-s-presstitutes/story-K2EEzHoeiFMl9LlXDnQdiI.html

Thanks a lot for the link Abhishek, however when you post a link you need to save it so that it becomes live, like I have done below..

http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-party-is-over-for-india-s-presstitutes/story-K2EEzHoeiFMl9LlXDnQdiI.html

Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.