It’s a sad commentary on our society that most of us wouldn’t read this but for the title. We have turned into tongue hanging, saliva dripping, gore-hungry couch potatoes and the media is horror mongering on that. As we all blame the media for misrepresenting Arushi-Hemraj murder case, we also intently read her personal emails and messages with great interest. While fuel prices mildly interest us, we crave to see how many ‘affairs’ Arushi had or how ‘compromising’ was her situation. Then we all blame it on Ekta Kapoor for using a murder case to increase her TRPs.

What’s wrong with the media saying what we want to hear or showing what we want to see? How else will it survive in a society where “only sex and Shahrukh Khan sell”? Blaming only the media is like curing the symptom and not the cause. News channels have become entertainment channels because of the demand. I don’t know anyone in my family who listens to the dull monotone of an ordinary looking news reader on Doordarshan. When will we realize that the problem and the solution both lie in us?