Don’t destroy my country in the name of “Breaking news”!!!!!

India, one of the fastest developing countries in the world, has lost in the race of image perception both internally and externally. It is not because of myriads of corruption emerging each day cutting across party lines but because of electronic media’s poor strategy of adding television rating points. It is good that “media” both print and electronic media acting as the “fourth pillar” of Indian Constitution apart from Legislative, Executive and Judiciary. Playing such a high role, it should act more sensibly.

Without media’s effort no great scams have come to light .Few years back, medias are afraid of cunning politicians but now a day’s cunning politicians are afraid of media. It is sparing no one, whomever he may, and how powerful he may-thanks to vibrant media. It created “sense of fear” among wrong doing people mainly wrong doing politicians and bureaucrats. Sure it will reduce corruption in coming days. But at the same time it created much damage to the country’s image perception.

Mainly ,the electronic media in the name of “Breaking News” highlighting the scams and wrong doing doings of politicians and bureaucrats 24*7-that’s fine but at the same it need to focus on the positive side too. If a person with great ambition of civil service keeps on watching news channel, then sure he will drop his aim in a short span time because it is just highlighting the darker side of the country, like corruption done by bureaucrats ,politicians influencing bureaucrats, un-ethical transfers, mafia beaten honest officers and goons killed honest administrators etc. On seeing these entire things, one may get afraid of the civil service and quits his aim because it failed to create “sense of optimism” among the emerging younger generation. Many honest civil servants are doing great work to the country which goes un-noticed. If those works are highlighted along with the darker side of India, then the younger generation works hard to change the darker side to grey and then to white instead of quitting civil service. It is national shame to hear that 180 honest civil servants quit because of pressure from darker side groups in past ten years. The exam syllabus, selection procedure and the training before ,a person get into civil service are  in such a way that no one should think of corruption and wrong doings but because of the environment in which he is  forced to fit into the Darwin’s theory of “Survival of fittest”. He is afraid of frequent transfers, so many works that he intended to do have been destroyed at the budding stage itself.

Likewise, many politicians are doing great work to the country but those deserved things to be highlighted are gone un-noticed to the electronic media .For example, the great work of the rural development minister in campaigning for sanitation to all, vast deliberations on Genetically modified food by few members of parliament and good articulation about India and its policies in UN by the former Deputy-Prime minister etc. Few politicians deserve kudos towards their work but not all. If media mainly electronic media sheds light on good work done by some good politicians, then the younger generation will get into politics in order to eliminate the bad ones and to carry India in right direction. Now a day’s “Politics” is seen as a thing of un-touch ability by honest people.

If media keeps on highlighting bad things alone, then day by day politics and bureaucracy  will lose its image completely and  there will be full of goons in near future occupying the both .So the media should play positive role too in building up India with spreading optimism among the younger generation.

                                                                                

                                                                                   Govind Prakash