Every once in a while, we come across examples of the media playing a role bigger than itself. they take it upon themselves to ’mould’ public opinion, confident that they are ’always right’ and it is upto them to ’show’ us the world. THROUGH THEIR EYES. star news is one such example. this is one of the few channels where we find newscasters busy trying to push their opinions and giving personal comments on news. they always ’have to’ give us more than the news. gimme a break! and gimme just the news. I can form my own opinions, thank you! precisely why I stopped watching star news.
added later :
ok looks like some of the readers have a problem with my opinions. lemme clarify. watch the bbc(just an example). there are newscasts. then there are news analyses. there are opinion programs also. very different from each other.
from what I have watched of star news (of course, like I said, I haven’t been watching it for a while now) I get the feeling that these diverse programming genres are a li’l mixed, as in all rolled into one. that in my opinion that will drive the viewer to form opinions on credibility. like, do they really tell you how qualified they are as to form political opinions or whatever? are they the ’intelligentsia’ that we have to look up to? of course, they are smart, savvy newscasters. my point was that there needs to be distinction between programming genres. I need the news. keep the opinions separate. period.