Watching The Idiot Box....

As the journalist hems and haws in front of a bereaved family asking absurd questions like - How are you feeling? What were the last words uttered by your son/daughter when he/she left the house in the morning? Did you ever anticipate such an event?....you feel neausea and irritation getting into you too...

More so when you see one of the "professional" of your fraternity acting like a pest, trying to dig in his terse claws of questions into the emotional flesh of individuals who have just lost a beloved soul from the family.

Son murdered...daughter raped...train accidents...natural calamities....feelings of nostalgia lingering in the minds of the family members as they huddle with each other, trying to find some solace in one another...thud a "professional" journalist, wanting for a "scoop" puts forth a 10 inches mike and adds 10 questions at a shot!

This is so very inhumane. Have our fellow journalists lost their consciousness for the want of professional TRP's? Do we have no emotions to respect the sentiments of that families and individuals?

As the barrage of amoebic channels spurt like mushrooms in the length and breadth of the idiot box, I can see my professional friends, in the want of TRP's and advertisements for their respective channels, going to any extent in the name of professionalism.
The term unfortunate needs to be redifined, it seems!

Can something be done to stop this inhumane symbolism in the name of professionalism?
Or will my journo friends get more parasitic in the want to more scoops?

Inside us we should define our boundaries. Somewhere, I read this quote which I would like to share with my journo friends -
"Deep within us lies the meaning of everything that's outside".

Let us give this a serious thought!!!

(The picture in the page depicting a news channel is just indicative. It is not to be understood that this channel is being accused of trying to act as "pest" or its journos as "parasites".
Infact, this is one channel which I am really appreciative of. Remember their exclusive coverage on the farmer story and how the family was helped through the news:)