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The one day ban on Hindi news channel NDTV India has once again ignited the debate on the rights and duties of media. There is a very fine line between reporting everything and controlled reporting. It will be too early to say whether the news channel really violated the norms and was able to provide important information to terrorists. This is difficult to fathom that terrorist would even rely on the information provided by a channel publically. However, the situation is sensitive and each and every point has to be covered. The authorities must come clean on why NDTV is a culprit so that other channels can be given a guideline on how they should report.
The media, time and again keeps crossing limits where they start by calling the accused people or political figures culprit at their initial stage of accusation while the rule is that everyone is innocent until they are proved guilty. The term media trial which was coined on a lighter and somewhat sarcastic note has gone gravely serious. As soon as the accusation arrives from anywhere, the person or victim is straightaway declared culprit and gets various charges without even being heard. This kind of trial is totally biased which starts with the viewpoint of anchors and dies down on the same. Some experts are called in to speak their mind and keep their opinion in public domain but they are generally overridden by the anchor. The anchor is always less aware of the matter and is literally a dumb person if you compare with the expertise people around him have. And the irony is that the anchor holds the driver’s key.in the debate. The expert opinion and facts go into the background and a premeditated verdict is served to audiences in a way that it appears to be the only truth.
Analysis of news today is very important and must be done only by experts. It used to be the case when newspapers were the only credible medium of news and analysis. From Editorial to various columns written by experts would give you a clear insight into the matter, its nitty gritty, and the real perspective. Today, experts have moved to electronic media where they not only get their name highlighted, their faces too go to the public and hence they earn unprecedented popularity. This popularity always lacked a visual appeal in newspapers. Perhaps this is why these experts have agreed knowingly or unknowingly to be superseded by a good looking, well spoken anchor who comes with an agenda, serves it in sugar coated words or sometime deceiving angered sentences, and then leaves with what they had brought. Period.
This had become a trend to believe all what media would say ten times a day. People had begun to feel that the anchor of the analysis shows were only the real patriotic and people-favoring persons alive on the Earth. But now with the discrimination of channels through social media, people have either stopped watching these shows or have selected their favourite ones. Both these situations are really bad for country. Government can hardly do anything in this. A ban on a channel for one day will only give the channel undue attention. People will have to reject the analysis shows which appear useless on their own. The whole game of TRP has to be turned upside down.

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