For beginner's I recommend Greensleeves by Kenny G. Really. Awesome.
Entertainment is perhaps a must-have for the stressed out lifestyles people follow these days. Explains why there is such a cut-throat competition between channels with respect to the so-called TRP ratings. I never knew what TRP meant to be honest with you; it means Target Rating Point (read more here).
There are many examples of newer and (?)innovative programs now airing on the hundreds of channels we have. There are about 45 news channels, all showing the same shit 24/365; same terror attacks, rapes, molestation, wars, crime, corruption, disease, famine, hunger, death and other kind of which is just summed up earlier as 'shit'.
Don't take it the wrong way... I don't mean to undermine the suffering of people here. I am just saying that does it take SO MANY channels to say the same stuff over and over and over. The money wasted can go to SO MANY relief works. Can't we have a few channels ( I respect free press) only?
News is perhaps a bad example of ENTERTAINMENT. Has anyone seen Bindass Channels Emotional Atyachaar? For those who haven't see here. It's basically a program in which a boyfriend/girlfriend of a person want a 'loyalty test'.
So basically the channel bombards the other person with hot chicks and handsome hunks to test if they don't go astray. And when they do (of course) they show the intimate moments to the person who ordered the test. That person cries, curses, slaps the other person, basically showcases an obscene show of emotions. Which you would expect if the love of YOUR lie betrayed you with some gal/guy.
It's EMOTIONAL PORNOGRAPHY. Yeah you heard me correctly the first time.
Take a person, rip them apart, and lay their emotions bare for all the people to see for entertainment. Can anyone give me a better term for this obscenity?
Are we so done for that for our "entertainment" these days we need to see someones life being crushed, humiliated, hurt and abused?
Are we so untouched by someone's misery? Their tears, cries and screams are the fodder for our emotional deprivation?
Are we demons, tormentors or plain animals who thrive on the pain and suffering of others?
Is this the modern lifestyle? Work all day and unwind by watching someone's life getting screwed.
WOW.
I mean what are we trying to watch here?
Did you ever pause to think?
Or perhaps its too late for you.
6 comments:
Its just a vicious cycle... Viewers watch whatever is served to them and channels say , we show what the viewers want to watch.
That is so true.
Such shows are sickening. And I was surprised to see how popular they become. I am so often hearing the name of this particular show nowadays but what shocked me was that most of those people were discussing it with great interest instead of the disgust I was expecting. But this isn't the first show of its kind. It has just taken this to a new level.
Just open any reality show. They are all doing the same. Selling emotions of real people to improve their own viewers. There was a time when shows like Sa Re Ga Ma were all about finding the music talents but now, music is just a part of it. These talent shows spend so much time showing the poor living conditions of the contestant, the crying mother, struggling family. They feed on people sympathy. Its not just about the talent anymore as it should have been. If you are taking part in such a show, you aren't just showcasing your talents...you are laying your life, your family bare for all to see. The TV emphasizes on how miserable the life of someone is. Even the news aren't any better.
I am extremely disappointed with our Television.
It’s an issue to be thought over... It is indeed a fact that the most negative influence on current society (India or abroad) is by the media, especially television. It is almost impossible to find anything interesting, beneficial or constructive. Even news channels, succumbing to populist methods, focus on titillating their audiences with nothing more than fodder for gossip. Everything else is mindless, film based nonsense or panders to baser instincts. There are some rare programs that are good, but they are so rare that it’s not worth suffering through the remaining endless idiocy in the name of entertainment or news.
Relevant write.
It’s an issue to be thought over... It is indeed a fact that the most negative influence on current society (India or abroad) is by the media, especially television. It is almost impossible to find anything interesting, beneficial or constructive. Even news channels, succumbing to populist methods, focus on titillating their audiences with nothing more than fodder for gossip. Everything else is mindless, film based nonsense or panders to baser instincts. There are some rare programs that are good, but they are so rare that it’s not worth suffering through the remaining endless idiocy in the name of entertainment or news.
Relevant write.
We are living in the age of the voyeur... it is useless for the few remaining sane people like the Shuriken Samurai, or the shadowsapphire to expect our emotionally scarred and flawed generation to be swayed by meaningful entertainment... I am sorry if I sound uselessly pessimistic here, but the evidence seems to point this way. People today seriously do think that there is no entertainment unless it is at the expense of someone else. And this is something that the TV guys understand perfectly.... they deliberately look for the dark underbelly of the human psyche, which is becoming all-too visible in the largely impersonal and marginalised world we live in... I guess this is what they really mean by "reality TV" ...
Hii Samar,
Me and some of my friends have started an E- Magazine called Reader's Quotient, it is totally for a noble cause of funding education to needy children, I came across your blog in my quest to search talented writers and felt worth to inquire if you shall be interested to come along with us,
If yes pls contact us at sangeeta.goswami@readersquotient.com
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