In his concluding address the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi specifically condemned the electronic and print media for not giving coverage to the prestigious 33rd National games solemnized in Assam on a world class infrastructure and as a grand show…
TV channels were devoting their maximum time on reality shows, cinema, crimes, fashion etc… print media were filling their pages with cricket, tennis, big deals by NRIs and had a small corner of a page for this mega event…
Radio, TV and print media should have highlighted the national games as they do for cricket… the front pages of Indian news papers had lesser worth without the coverage of National Games during the last 10 days…
As a devout reader of news papers and viewer of TV I express my heartfelt pain for this blunder committed by the media…
2007-02-18 03:13:31 · 2 answers · asked by Harish Jharia 7 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
You can give various answers!
There was the Indian cricket team to occupy the sports section! If they play well, that is news. If they don't play well, that is also news. If they do not play at all, that is good news!
Then there was sister Sania!
Then there was Advani, Vajpayee, Shilpa Shetty, etc. etc. etc.
Amidst all this, one should be surprised only if our media barons and brethren had taken all the trouble to visit a North Eastern state fraught with terrorists and other dangers to cover an event devoid of any glamour!
Probably, they might have covered had somethin gone terribly wrong there. Unfortunately, for the National Games, everything went smooth and well!
2007-02-18 04:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by Ophelia_Chennai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, i'd say its bcos the n'tl games do not create a big hype... so IBN can't say India Rising and TIMES can't use India Poised!! these channels feed on sensationalism... they don't give a damn for anything "down to earth". that's why they don't concentrate on J&K or the North east... u can't call it the so and so capital of india in any field (like hyd is called the bio-tech capital of india)
however, let me point out that i did read some snippets on the games on NDTV and in my local newspaper, Deccan Chronicle
2007-02-19 03:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by sushobhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋