An open call to Media

media is more about sensationalism today. every channel is trying to outdo other by making claims, accusations and showing weird things on tv - in garb of reality shows. Sometimes baseless reports only on hearsay and no substantial research to back it
Media governance is good and is needed

I endorse your view and understand the sentiment expressed by you Mr. Paul.  I am also of the view that they should present the picture in perspective with corroborative evidences on the matters that are of national importance for future and leave the judgement to the larger audience. Sometimes, they go berserk in the TRP race!

My dear friend,
My point is that media should be proactive and do their on research and analysis on issues relating to national interest. Currently they are becoming alive only at the 
postmortem stage. Media has become a place for politicians to wash their dirty linens and unproductive political bickering.  

Let us take the noise in media about Telecom itself as an example: What media was doing when Telecom was being mismanaged by DOT. 
Story is same with other almost every other areas also. There is drastic need  of infrastructure growth, indigenous manufacturing of capital goods, rural development, linkage of river and sharing of water resources, reforms in Public health, Education, PDS, Defense preparedness, Disaster management, Counter terrorism etc, etc. 
In fact I wrote about the folly of spectrum and other telecom policies many editors of most of the news papers and media anchors many years back and no one even cared to use it.   
Media is yet to come out with some factual analysis of the viability, practicality and effectiveness of Lokpal proposal. 
Media has a bigger responsibility to bring out the facts to public as things happen instead of crying foul on everything after the harm is already done. It has become painful to watch most of the channels. 
  

Media, at times, go berserk on matters, but on telecom issue they were really showing resilient. There won't be smoke without fire. When the smoke was billowing in the telecom sector and the alarm bell was pressed by CAG and the opposition together, the ruling telecom minister calls for a press conference to say that we are not accountable or answerable for "presumptive loss" and even went on to claim that during this regime, they had increased the tele-density, etc, and therefore, not conceding to JPC, and was also praising the role of PAC under the chairmanship of MM Joshi. When Supreme Court intervened based on PIL, these skeletons started tumbling. Uprising started from the movements of civil society who were supported by Media. National Media are very critical about the way the Government is handling civil society and did not even spare Baba Ramdev asking direct questions about his move ("Anna snubbed, baba ramdev accorded red carpet welcome"). Its the public pressure, not the media, that is bringing up this issue. Majority of media houses run on patronage from government in some form or the other. The National media are debating as to how the pressure tactics of civil society will destroy the moral fabric of democracy and are eliciting opinions from the learned from across the society.  Present uprising, therefore, cannot be attributed to be Media alone, its out of public anger against the system, and the evading tendency of the politicians!