Should we believe on news channels?

Not completely... Because they are working for increasing their TRP rather than delivering accurate news......

-- 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 - viewers are often not allowed to express theirs ( visual media " feeds" )

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

..... We are lucky or unlucky that  most of the audiences of visual media switches between channels in evry five minutes, do not bother for views ( whose viewa ? ) and ultimately settles in soap-operas or entertainments

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

There is a law of advertisement that we cannot show those things which are not true or we cannot promise those things to the consumers which we cannot give.We cannot promote anything which is not real.I believe T.V is one form of mass media of advertisement and communication where many viewers are daily watching various channels like sports, entertainment, news etc for information.But are there any authenticity nowadays to it?

1.First of all there are 100s of news channel competing with one another and everybody exaggerating the news according to their wish so that the TRP rates increase.They make the viewers believe the non sense and the way they are projecting each and every issue are really questionable. One news but no uniformity within channels.It gets variegated by the media policies and newsmakers..

2.People watch news in order to gain insight into the problem not to get confuse but our fellow newsmakers in order to get HIGH TRP often forget that they are confusing people.

3.They forget that people are not nerds and are also conscious enough to find out the truth. Once the policy behind the newsmakers are understood then that newschannel adopts another tactics to fool the viewers.

4.More focus on political issues..and less concentration on other factors sometimes make a disgusting news.

Nowadays there are more than 100 news channel but none of them are effective or trusteable... 

Even if media is so called business, the foremost purpose of their presence is to generate full-proof happenings as and when happen, without marginalising or taking sides. Moreover nowadays the presenters themselves behave which news is proper & improper and push the viewers towards their liking. The tone is high-pitched yelling, continuous interrupting the guest. Its all fracas, nothing more. people may find difficult to digest but i prefer our old doordarshan news - simple to-the-point delivery of only NEWS. 

Probably nowadays its more of a business than journalism.  Only TRP ratings matter.  They will show all kind of non sense and make or break the news to make it spicy.  So it is really becoming difficult to trust them completely.

Recently saw an interview of a politician who was a hindu and poor fellow had made some comment like " Sharab peene ke baad namaz nahi padhni chahiye  ".  And the media reported that XYZ says " namaz nahi padhni chahiye ".  It sounds hilarious but such type of journalism would take us nowhere !

However, if these guys want they can bring sea change in mentality of people and in many cases they have done it also !  Hope they get out of TRP game !

Hi Surendra, Every business has rules to follow as per Indian Govt. Same way NEWS CHANNELS should also need to follow it. They have invested million to start the company -AGREED, but that can not utilized as investors wishes. They should follow some ethics & standards at least. NEWS CHANNELS are missing many points to follow. Do you think that 26/11 attacks live reporting was appropriate? Don't you think it was more of irresponsibility towards our country & security of the many people who were stuck inside? They were even showing where all the Police, Military & Shooters are hiding & how they are planning the counter attacks, which may have guided those militants to plan better & they struggled for very long. Why every celebrity person is scared by "MEDIA"? A infant fallen in to some water well & that is a BREAKING NEWS for the 48 hrs! This is terrible, there are 1000 of important issues are waiting to address. I'm capturing a words from here "below the belts" items are getting aired & that's the truth.

A nice debate topic. News channels these days are handy tools to make people believe by taking them at your side with money power. It works 1000 times faster & effective than any TV commercials. Actually one can call this "NEWMERCIALS".

Today the channels are mushrooming .it is becoming like the serials /soap opera .

Most of them are not in serious business of news.They are basically interested in the unemployed percentage of society veiwing masala and below the belt programs

Of the news channels few are news related in a serious way rest are mouth pieces of different political parties ,and money laundring enterprenuerrship.

So if you take the hand ful of news channels  you find that the news items are 40% micellaneous and time is spent on questions to reporters with fed answers ,and questions on emotional items etc just to keep the minutes ticking.

The bottom line is all these channels are in business for Profit only.They care less on authenticity and ethics of proper reporting on important issues on policies,national impact etc that are to be imparted to mature veiwership.

The 24 hr continous news is a real bore. the news just does not change to a great extent

I feel One or two news channels dedicated gto news should be enough.

there should be a regulatory body to monitor on certain parameters and disqualify channels from using the air

A long shot again since Most channels = most political parties, so the setting up of regulatory body is ......herculean task !or ant good ideas?

I won't say completely "NO" but not believing blindly also. Today's news channels are completely corrupted and unbiased. It does partiality and never gives the complete picture. We get only one sided news. So, it wouldn't be intelligent enough to blindly trust them.

Not only at present, always the strength of media is to make everyone to beleive what ever they want

The private news channels are owned by a corporate house that has its own business interests and make profit/get money to stay on air using the advertising which are also business interests. So corruption of the news channel is quite easy and is happenning all over the world as advertising becomes tough, people's attention is divided between the Internet and TV, targeted advertising on the mobile takes off etc.

India, with more than a billion of people, has so many issues at hand, waiting to be represented, but, rather than focussing on those issues they are putting thrust on issues that are far from reality or not of current importance. Certain news channels are becoming more of entertainment and horror channels rather than a medium of responsible journalism. These channels have altogether changed the meaning of journalism, which is a noble profession and some people (for their TRP ratings) have altogether changed its values that the word upholds.

Channels like Star News, Aajtak are some of the most disastrous channels for Indian democracy to have. We should not believe them but should have faith in newspapers like The HIndu.

News channels are risky these days. They show what they are not supposed to show. There is very little reality in what they telecast. The news is very manipulated. The issues that really need to be covered and addressed are ignored, but if a celebrity (from any field) has even a slightest pain in the hand or elsewhere, it is the top story of the day, week, month.

High time news channels became the problem solvers rather than problem creators.....

Because news channel add only exciting words and its just play immotion with people and get money from accused. I not telling every news channel is like that but major of channel is like that. So i am not belive in news channels. but according to awarness i am forty percent of news belived.

Why to rely on news channels.....

I agree with Ms Kavitha Shankar.

News channels are biased and out for their own ratings.  The more outrageous and controversial they can make it the more people will watch.  I guess blame all of us for watching the news and supporting their propaganda.  At least, realize this and dont believe everything you see or hear!

A better controlling mechanism and activism is required in journalism.

I really don't believe in news channels any more they are so much misleading these days, and are working for their own benefits, and are just into sensationalizing the news rather than providing proper news...there is strong fight for the TRPs and viewership gain and where they are forgetting to put quality content...

No , i do not believ the news channels.

Everyone is propogating their story and mileading the investor..

All the stories has various versions on all news channels.. Its better to watch them as comedy shows.. The breakin news are like heart breaking..

Nowadays it's been difficult to trust the media in our country. These people are not able to keep their words even for one day. For instance, just a day before the result for the Indian parliamentary elections, all the news channels on their exit polls declared that it was difficult for UPA to form the government and could only conquer 240 seats along with their allies. On the day of the result when UPA conquered the majority the same news channels declared that their exit poll was the most accurate and they estimated it to be 270. Nopw how can we trus these news channels.

Even due to excess number of news channels present in India the quality of news have also deteriorated. These channels are not able to collect the news substance and have to show the episodes of musical, dance and comic shows of the entertainment channels, moreover the news channels are so dependent on the sponsors for their revenue, that they are bound to be loyal to those brands and misconduct caused by those sponsor is ignored by the media channels and kept hidden

Nowdays In our country 100 of news channels exist in the market.And Every single  news channel is wants to increase their TRP any how.So sometime they cross their  limits.Where they try to manupulate news to increase their TRP's . And Actullay now days they do not focus on relevent issues rather than focusing on Masala news.Whether it was Varun controversy or It was Sharukh Khan's KKR controversy. All the News channels was trying to make both the news more attractive to got more audiences.So i Think now days we should not need to believe on these channels.

Media is the fourth column of Indian democracy!!!

But what if the fourth column is rotten?

And you know what is making this rot even deeper? Sources.

In the name of sources News channels are manufacturing news and in the name of sources they are hiding their face after being proved wrong.

But news channels are afterall business--right?

This is foolish to believe business to be the GOD.

A word of caution to the country men--This is a battle going on in this world on agendas and propagandas.

Lets not caught in the cross fire.

And have faith in All mighty--truth will win.

Now a days one should not rely on TV channels as the channels are really became notorious in the sense to make sensational news .

Dear Surendra, I think you are not aware that there are some rules of Journalism which need to followed. And today, TV is the source of information even for people who are illiterate, you cannot expect them to understand everything.