2016 -The Year that changed Indian Media Forever
It's 9:52 PM here in India and only a few hours are left before 2016 kisses us goodbye forever.Everybody is busy in retrospecting their memories of 2016 and I have decided to describe mine. It is already loud outside & I have just watched PM Modi's address to the nation. There are many ideas in my mind & I have chosen to say something about India's Media. This is a year that completely metamorphosed the way we perceive and think of MEDIA .Media is considered the fourth pillar of democracy after Legislature, Executive & Judiciary.It is the duty of Media to check the undesired advance of these three pillars of democracy when they become rustic and unrelentingly out of control. An ordinary citizen perception of the government is directly proportional to the way media of a country reports/rates the government & its policies.Media houses independency is a must and essential feature of a democratic nation.Any nation where media is not independent and is heav...