In today's world the idiot boxes are living up to its name religiously & even more. The reason being that even journalism is rapidly moving towards the showbiz. Earlier media used to inform people about it but now it is a part of showbiz. It’s all a TRP game now. And it seems it's ages before when serious journalism was all about the power of  kalam (pen) and simple living, high thinking which is now replaced by the power of glamour world and being westoxicated (meaning aping west in every possible way). Our media is on the footsteps of being a papparazi itself.

After the Uma Khurana’s incident it became all the more important to pull the reins of power from media’s hands. What’s shocking that in spite of knowing the fact that the whole thing was sham, news channels kept repeating the news and even flared it all up. After a month long hullabaloo the code at last was made for the TV channels. What’s interesting was the fact that Doordarshan, the ultimate inimitable brand (a channel known for keeping its originality and dignity intact, no matter what) was very stressed out and was organizing meetings to solve the problems.

On 15-09-07, Doordarshan celebrated for having completed its 48 years. It started in the year 1959 and has never looked back since then. With more than hundred regional channels under its belt & still maintaining its dignity, Doordarshan held a seminar consisting of journalists from all stratas, T.V. channel's chief, news anchors, serial producers; in short all elitist and experienced personalities from TV. Every one from the who's who was present with their views. The likes of Prabhu Chawla, Anuradha Prasad, Chitra, Jaideep Desai, Nafisa Ali, Prem Sagar, Akbar Khan, Mukesh Khanna, Nalini Singh, a long list you see.

The debate was on the social responsibility of a channel which is decreasing day by day. It’s commendable on behalf of Doordarshan for having organized a seminar on such important an issue and at such urgent time, rather than having a bash at a private farmhouse and inviting all the media persons; they preferred to resolve this issue. Hats off to them. Apart from serious discussion going on what’s interesting was the defensive attitude of people as all of them were in one or the other way related to news channels. It’s quite a sight to see all of them resolving the issue on one side and protecting their respective channels from blame on other side.

All of us know today what the private entertainment channels as well as the news channels are serving us. You surf through the channels and you'll either see a 'K' serial or a 'live sansani'. In case of private entertainment channels, it's the usual old drama of a lady protagonist wedding everybody from the star cast of the serial and even after that being tagged as miserable and lonely. Serials such as 'Rehai' by Anuradha Prasad as she mentioned did fetch her many awards but not the TRPs but her serial 'Kumkum' got her the second if not the award.

So basically is it true that TV shows us what we want to see? Or are we so lazy so as to see whatever is coming and not switching the channels thereby providing TRPs to useless shows? Mr. Prabhu Chawla here needs a mention coz he’s the one constantly interrupting other’s conversation by saying that private TV channels should be taken into consideration and we shouldn’t concentrate only on News channels.

Is he right? Do we need to take all things into consideration or take things one by one so as to seal the effectivity of the steps taken to improve the standards of journalism. Cause when we say the word journalism it covers everything which spreads or imparts knowledge about what is happening around us. So in this case I don’t think we need to include private TV channels as a whole because they show stories and stories are far from reality though there are many real story based shows running but they don’t need any code. So, roughly we can say that we can wait for the code for private TV shows to happen. Though we can’t ignore them by saying that they aren’t bad enough to have conduct code but it’s a different story all together here.

We can ban on the sleazy bedroom scenes but we can’t stop the protagonist from marrying 4 times to the same man. Can we??? I hope Mr. Prabhu Chawla got his answer by now and by the way guys he’s just being defensive on AAJ TAK’s side that’s all.

What is interesting was that Mahabharata was caused due one women i.e. Draupadi and here the rootcause is TRP. So I was just wondering whether TRP is M or F.

Now that the code of conducts have been made (I’ve saved the word “implemented” for future use, you see because you never know when the law is made, when it gets implemented & when it is actually put to practice), it seems that things will fall into place gradually. As a rule that’s been made, is to keep a check on News channels which are organizing the so called sting operation (which really sting a person’s reputation) and air shows which are far from reality. And all this happens for just one motive and that’s TRP.

The law - basically the code that’s been made is sort of an individual law, I mean every channel will have to look after the contents of the shows being aired and it’ll be entirely the channel’s responsibility to ensure whether the law is being defied or followed. Though the laws have been made keeping in mind not to limit journalism (as many channel directors were basking for this reason only) but one question that remains unanswered is that who’ll supervise the whole lot of channels, I mean there ought to be panel above all the channels, which can look into matters with an unbiased view point. And that's what remains.

The solution founded is very apt, just that it needs to be packaged correctly. I am sure things will look better in future. We’d be happy that at last the solutions knocked on the problems door and the only thing that needs to be done is to open the door. Now all depends on how the door is opened.