I tried very hard to not post this, but I simply could not get over the fact that my Facebook feed is basically filled with pictures from Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover’s wedding, and of the Hritik Roshan and Kangana Ranawat’s love feud.  I do not quite resonate Aaron Sorkin’s feelings when he in his series ‘The Newsroom’ showed the stigma or rather disgrace associated with tabloid journalism. From the little knowledge which I have managed to gather from my four years of media education, journalism purists have always demarcated between what is ‘pure journalism’ and what is not. So when the protagonist of Sorkin’s show, Will McAvoy reminds Neena Howard who real journalists are, I kind of understand the school of thought he was referring to. And I guess I do party believe in it.  For those of who are still clueless, Sorkin called ‘gossip mongers’ a disgrace to journalism and through his show he asked a section of tabloid journalists not to call themselves j...

Journalism school is probably the best time to talk about ethics and write about morals and the efficacy of ideal journalism. Almost every media student has probably scribbled in their answers sheets that the practice of journalism is no longer devoted to ‘public interest’, rather it has shifted it paradigm to ‘commercial interest’. And graduation school probably remains the only place where you can talk about reporting things in a much codified way and with an idealistic approach. As a final year a journalism undergraduate student, I have observed one thing; there are two types of students who take up journalism studies. The first category of students believes journalism to be a very noble profession and believes in true patronage of sensible news. The second category, to put very bluntly believes media to be a fame making industry that is fuelled by popularity (read: circulation/readership/view ship). The difference between both types again being the attitude towards ‘public ...