IS MEDIA STRONGER THAN THE GOVERNMENT

Media is said to be the voice of the people and acts as an intermediate between the people and the various other factors which has the impact on the society. That is why they got more power to reveal the actual picture. But now a day the media has changed the attitude to get maximum TRP. If government is doing little mistake they will add lots of spice in the actual information and reveals it in the society or if they get paid for for the particular things they can even create a good picture of the bad things. So their attitude needs to be changed to have full faith on people.

May not Media and Govt work in tandem for the welfare and development ? Instead, if media becomes stronger, may a Govt. work ?

Let us examine :

-- Media, as often seen, tends to make mockery of all decessions of Govt., good or bad

-- the try to project themselves the "only vanguard" for peoples' interest ( actually they work for their own 'interests' - say TRP and or legal or illegal revenues, being a hidden pressure group for a particular House )

-- their communications often remain just one way - readers and viewers are often not allowed to express theirs ( visual media " feeds", print media : publishes stories )

-- most often they create a "Think-tank" for themselves, inviting personalities of their choices - seldom other point of view is allowed to be aired/ printed ( it is believed that these panelists remain in some kind of "pay-role" for the media )

....... * We are lucky or unlucky that "Print Media" may not reach to the vast majority ( say 60 % ) as they have no purchasing power to buy a news paper daily.

......  * most of the audiences of visual media switches between channels in evry five minutes, do not bother for views and ultimately settles in soap-operas or entertainments

Ultimately : dont allow anybody Govt/ Media/ Group/ Think-tank or so rule us - we, the people are more powerful than Media/ Govt.

Should be to keep the Government in check, but make sure it does not think that it is Supreme and starts taking law or judgement in its own hand

Yes Kavitha I am strongly in your support because Media is the only which is bringing out the hidden fact of so many issues. Though Politicians and some rich people have their share in the Media but even then Media Plays a strong role and influence the public.  So there is no doubt at all that Media is stronger than the Government.

media may not be stronger than the government: nonethe less it can certainly shake the government out of its slumber. most times government fails to act on an issues unless it is highlighted vociferously by the the media. in a country where lack of accountability is present everywhere ,media is certainly playing a role what the government should be doing on its own

i agree with Kavitha,Media plays a very important role in keeping the tantrum of the government in check.

Hello, Vinay, Yes. Media is stronger than the government. Media reaches to the people very fast. Hence they should give positive news. They should not interpreting the news and create problem for the public. 

K rajagopalan.

Media is able to reach a larger segment of the population than the government does and does it faster 20 times a day!

This would not matter if we had responsible journalism but some of the media outlets in this country are hardly what we can call responsible.

They should stick to reporting the news instead of interpreting it and asking and making leading statements.

Yes media is stronger than any government by nowadays no media are taking responsablity for public intrest they care only for increasing their #.

I will support media because

1. Any media company has the power to destroy the reputation of the administration of the government
2. The media can reach larger coverage of the community

yes to reach any good thing or policy done by the government or to make aware of the corruptions the media will play a vital role but today they are doing some things which leads to the wrong assesments