Chennai Rains on TV...

Want to have some real time pass? Watch Sun TV and Jaya TV trying to outwit( outfool??) each other..One says the poor are hit hard by the recent downpour..the other says that the President,PM and whos who in the political circles are praising the govt for the deaft handling(?) of the situation.
One says there is a scam in distributing relief material, the other says everybodys needs have been taken care off.
Whom are these people trying to satiate??
Are there anybody to wield the baton on these two unruly mob for running amuck??
Why do they exist?
When are we going to see unbiased journalism from these two?
A strict case of moral journalism giving way to commercial journalism. Both these channels act as a good reference point for aspiring journalists on what not to be.
The stark truth is that both are in a different world altogether.The reality is that the poor continue to suffer as most are done in by land mafia into settling down on what once were regular waterways. Build your sweet home on those waterways and you ought to see them disappear in the next rains.
A river should have its own course and when once man tries to outwit nature, nature has its own way of responding. Saidapet,Velachery or for that case, any place on earth, the message is clear. DO NOT ty to distate things to mother nature.
Whos bothered by the huge amount of precious water let out into the open sea anyway??
Why have we not learnt from the past mistakes? Had those waterways and lakes been desilted on time , such a situation would have been avoided easily.
Both these channels seem to have lost thoughts about these in trying to our-report each other.
Blame it on commercialisation.Blame it on viewers who encourage the TRP ratings of these channels by watching them.

Cheers until our next blog.

With regards,
Sajeeth.K