Friday, December 19, 2008

T.V. Journalism in India

I personally feel the standard of Journalism has gone down in our country. I remember having seen an interview of "Satyajit Ray", perhaps the greatest Director of Realistic Cinema India has ever produced sometime in 1979. The Interview was conducted in a very polished and dignified fashion. The person who was taking interview chose to remain in the background. Not once did the camera focus on him during the interview session. The voice of the journalist was subdued, barely audible. The entire focus was on Mr Ray who was answering the questions put up by the journalist. Today's journalism is just the opposite. The focus of the camera is more on the journalist and less on the person who is being interviewed. It looks ridiculous. In most of the chat shows that I have seen, there does not seem to exist basic protocol. Most of the time, while the host speaks in Hindi , people participating in chat shows speak in English. Sometimes, it is even worse than this. The same person while expressing his views switches from English to Hindi and vice versa every now and then. What kind of Viewer the program is targetted at. Is the general public expected to understand multiple languages. In a situation where the participant expresses his views in a language other than the language in which the participants are supposed to speak, it is the responsibility of the host to interrupt and spell out clearly what the language of chat show is supposed to be. In extreme scenario, wherein the participant cannot speak in that language for whatever reasons, he or she should be allowed to speak in English as an exception which should be translated immediately by the host in Hindi for the benefit of the viewers. It appears to me that most of the participants have fairly good knowledge of Hindi but still they prefer to speak in English given the choice. When will we learn to respect our own language.

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