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| Photo Caption: On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 9pm to 10pm news hour, where M.B. Rajesh MP of CPM (I) taking part in the live news channel discussions over A move to establish Federal Allies both in Indiavision and Mathrubhumi news channels simultaneously. |
Generally
news are created, anything and everything don’t just turn out to be news contrary
to the parameters that define news; prominence, timeliness, proximity, impact,
magnitude, controversy, novelty and emotional impact. Keralalites are blessed
to have 5 exclusive news channels to watch news live; Asianet News, Manorama
News, Indiavision, Reporter, Mathrubhumi and part-time news channels such as; Jeevan
TV, Surya TV, Jai Hind, Amrita TV and Media one.
The unwritten law of the land is always the survival of the fittest and in the wake of the competition and to amplify the Television Rating Point (TRP), all the news channels have a news hour segment at 9pm to 10pm every night where the channels come up with, supposedly, the main topic of the day which is of common interest, sometime insignificant, and call expert people up, mainly from various political parties being all the topics are politically related, to discuss and arrive at a conclusion towards the end of the news hour.
The
news hour runs under the title ‘live’ discussion but how many of the so-called
news channel discussions are really live? All of us have a wrong notion that it
is all live but we can closely observe and switch to various news hour
programmes in different channels we would be surprised and shocked to see the omnipresent
of the particular expert/key speaker in various channels simultaneously,
discussing the same topic. So how ‘live’ is the so-called news channel
discussion and it is just utter ridicule to air it as live discussion.
Viewers
who do not keep switching to various news channels may not come to know about
these facts. To validate my point I have
one instance to narrate; that is on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 9pm to 10pm news
hour, where M.B. Rajesh MP of CPM (I) has been taking part in the live news
channel discussions over BJP-Modi-resignation of Advani from all the party
posts which triggered a Move to
establish Federal Allies both in Indiavision and Mathrubhumi news channels.
He was omnipresent in both the new channels at the same hour (simultaneously).
This
points to the fact that most of the so-called news channel discussions are
pre-recorded but only being aired as live news channel discussions. When there
is only an expert or key speaker to respond to the queries raised by the news
reader, he/she is inevitable for all the news channels and as he might have already
committed to a particular channel for the news hour discussion for the given
day. Without the expert/key speaker the news hour discussion can’t be complete so
his/her bytes are pre-recorded and being incorporated in the news hour
discussion and being aired as live news hour discussion.
When
and where the topic of the news hour topic is controversial, the politicians
concerned gets a chance to clear his stance or his party’s so in due course,
he/she commits to all news channels for the news hour discussion and being
unable to attend all the news hours simultaneously his byte is pre-recorded to
be aired as live news channel discussion.
It
is not just an isolated incident or it is not first-of-its kind. As the viewer
sticks on to a particular news channel discussion he/she being inclined to a
particular political party and ideologies, as each news channel has an inclination
to a particular party; he or she may not be aware that the expert/key speaker
discussing the given topic in a particular channel is omnipresent in all other news
channels discussing the same topic at the same time. Here, this fact I have made
an attempt to bring the attention to……
(I
have a few more such instances to validate but as I don’t have photographic
evidence, so I just reframe from my further attempts…..)
Photos: thadisan
Photos: thadisan
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