Regulate the blogs?
We all know about Indian media picking up the most irrelevant issues and looking at it with the most pessimistic eyes. With the increasing popularity of the blogosphere, a debate on the "good" and the "bad" of blogs by our media was long pending. So, we have Barkha Dutt of NDTV bring in a few bloggers to her show and debate on whether blogs should be regulated.
Having followed a handful of blogs pretty regularly, I can vouch for the fact that there are some responsible Indian bloggers in India and abroad. They bring in plenty of intellectual and entertaining discussions from credible authors to fill up that boring hour at office.
Obviously, NDTV would want to have nothing with these bloggers. Instead, they get in someone who calls herself "Compulsive Confessor" who gleefully keys down the most intimate details of her life. She looks hardly keen to hide her "bed jumping" chronicles to the hordes of voyeurs lapping up her blog and showering appreciation for her "courage". Giving company to the Confessor on the show is a gay guy who again runs a "gay" blog and a Confessor clone called "Foxy Tanya" (Fancy that for a name). With such an "elite" panel, Barkha Dutt discusses the dangers that blogs pose, possibility of invasion of privacy, irresponsible journalism and basically, the end of world. A massive generalization is made about all blogs in India and then the question about regulating blogs is popped up.
Talk about bad statistics and bad extrapolation, we have all seen that before
Cappuccino Musings
4 comments:
When the discussion is about regulation of blogs,in order to substantiate their point, obviously, they need to pick blogs which could use some regulation . Wont they be making a complete fool of themselves if they talk about regulation and choose some "good" non-controversial blogs like the ones you mentioned?
A valid point brought out by Barkha is that while print media can be held for publishing incorrect/inaccurate/controversial/offending statements, the blogs go scot-free
The point here is that the whole debate was a non-issue. Picking out a few outrageous self-indulgent blogs and making a massive extrapolation to all Indian blogs is what cause my ire.
The blogs have come under the scanner of mainstream society and can't get away with irresponsible writing. The IIPM Vs Rashmi Bansal/Gaurav Sabnis would be a classic example.
Hey Shankar,
I saw this program on NDTV just yesterday, may be I was just too late (cos i guess it got telecasted long back and I got to see it by chance), i felt that the whole thing abt Blogs has got a little too hyped only after the ppl from BOLLYWOOD started splashing eachothers images in their blogs... Blogging is coming into limelight only after ppl from limelight have started entering into it..
Abt the program, i saw it somewhere in between wherein a guy went on live to confess that he was GAY...
Blogs are meant for ppl to express what they feel and if start regulating it,then where is the freedom of speech and expression... This was my personal view :)
I dont belive in nonsense....
ShankarRoopaBastardRao will be dclared as bastard genetically...
roopaProstitueAragolam is declared as first female bastard.....
STOP ME IF YOU CAN
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