“Journalism can never be silent: That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.”- Henry Anatole Grunwald.
“HINDI PATRAKARITA DIVAS”,the day which marked the footprint of Indian Journalism is celebrated on 30 May every coming year because the first Hindi newspaper of India “Udant Martand” was published with concept ‘just to aware’.
But, somewhere Indian Journalism slowly dead and of course -it is and it will be dangerous for society .While India is the largest news market in the world with 82,000 newspaper and 690 satellite channels and approx 250 million internet users
Indian media has always been a flourishing venture. What began as a modest newspaper service in the late 18 century transferred into radio and television news in 20th.But, the era has changed one more time with Digital or Internet Journalism, which given a powerful stage for everyday Indian to voice out their opinion.
Meanwhile, today the elementary definition of journalism is under hit from private bloggers, correspondent, and writers who turns gossip into proof ,feelings into facts and rumors into breaking news just because the Indian Journalism has changed from ‘UNPAID’ to ’PAID’ journalism. Journalist are disrespectful the sense of evidence and major news outlets are making soap-operas of news stories. On the other side, India has a spectacularly low scale of press freedom.
Indian journalism is speedily becoming a competition between News Company, where catchy and attractive heads with less or negotiated content, never-ending advertisements and choosy reporting. From ‘Awareness’ to ‘Sensationalism’ has become the rule of the day. There is ocean of content to be delivered but preference given to money. This is dangerous when one thinks the permanent suggestions of the notion of ‘Audition of media’.
BUT…now it should be stopped, must be taken as a wake- up call after 190 years of Hindi Patrakarita to maintain the authenticity of the news which should not be compromised at all at any cost.
“INDIAN JOURNALISM NEEDS TO REMODEL ITSELF AND UNDERSTAND THE RESPONISIBILTY ON ITS SHOULDER”
~KAJAL THAKUR
