Has common man become the slave of media stories & hypes??

common man has remained common bcoz of lack of common sense. No one forces any person to watch anything. We have been given the options for programs to watch and it is our priority make the choice. Don't feel sorry for the common man, because if he is being smart in making so called comments on national issues, terrorism, cricket and what the government should do and what not, i feel he should have that much sense in following what is smart or not...please stop pitying the so called common man..he himself has popularised such stupid media programs by following them on regular basis.

hello mr murthy, My argument was about ignoring the bad part which media is focussing always

Media also knows that any Bad news spreads  fast and increases the TRPS,more over its not the bad news i am arguing it a tastelss news , - what would you think if a news flashes on your screen saying , " Ghost in the Village", "Black magic of tantrik", "Children are stamped by some person in village", "Adulteration of ghee, milk"

These news are flashed every now and then, and continues for 3-4 days long, but no one dares to cover the miseries of common man, every where its judiciary who direct governement to do some action

Is this the modern society we wanted to live in?

Media has become great tool in hand of politians to make comon man fool, the real issues are forgotten easily by people

today Common man is worried about his bread and butter nd he should not waste his time on Idiot box and paying electicity bill and cable charges

I beg to differ Ms. Ravali...media at times, does hype things unnecessarily and there have been several instances where things and issues were blown out of proportion. However, I feel that a majority of the common man out there are well aware of these so called "breaking news" and other fancy terminologies and treat them as just another means adopted to by the media to grab their attention.

The competition amongst the various news channels is intense and they need to use such tactics to gain an edge over one another, but the audience is well aware and educated to differentiate and decide what to and what not to believe.

Comon man is not the slave of media bt The Hero of media bcos media always try to represent common man & shows the adverse effects of govt./public strategies on common man.

I partially agree with Ravali but if society would have lost their ability to think then i believe India would have risen with leaps and bounds in other words Ravali said people just tend to follow media blindly if they do then India would be free from corruption, poverty, crime etc and become world largest super power because media doesn't show only chaat masala and fake stories, i agree not all the time they perform their duties honestly but if people tend to follow then media also presents stories of patriotism, honesty , love, secularism but do we follow  simply "no' 

They watch all the propaganda and take a considered decision.  See the result of the elections in India from time to time, Result of elections after emergency and also result of India shining campaign

BACK TO BASICS (FUNDAMENTALS )Mr.Prakash ,you have presented a highly refined viewpoint! 

Thank YOU Mr.Natteraja Arikrishnan for Referral.

Long back study was conducted by an International agency on the impact of Negative News Vs Positive News on newspaper circulation They came out with striking fact :People buy more newspaper when there is negative news in it.

However in todays world we can always cross check hypes and false  stories with the help of Internet and other sources.Our thoughts and actions are now more refined with additional inputs which leads us to make more meaningful decision in todays world

I appreciate your concerns on this subject, Ms.Ravali. But I will like to present a different view.

I follow Media stories very closely. But I extract the news value from them. I do not get carried away, with the hype raised, euphoria created. No question arises about my becoming slave to media hype.

If your fundamentals are clear, no media can biase your views. It entirely depends on individual, to what extent, he allows Media to hijack your thinking ability.

No. never a common man feels the media stories. Rather, media is used to transform the lives of  a common man. This may give a feeling that they are Slave to Stories. Media is exploiting their weakness & trying to achieve good thing. When achieved, it may look as if, they are Slaves. But , it is not. They learned a new thing.

Sorry ,Ravali.you are talking of common man, i thing he is still not aware what the media are writing or sensationalizing the small issue.The common man is busy in resolving his every day problem.The media stories and hype are affecting the people who matters to media.

I don't think so...For most of the peoples especially proffessionals and student they never spend much time for watching the T.V now a days. They just need some capsule type briefing of all those things happening around the world...

You are right in a way that media is trying to sensationalize by all means just ofr their TRP...In fact I watches it as a time pass....Thanks for an interesting topic any how...