Why is Indian media over reacting... all the time?

It adds on to all other stress in life.... It makes switching between channels a must during TV hour... It has become a habit to drop the newspaper from hand seeing a road accident picture, in the mornings... it has become a must-have activity to read the Tweets to reconfirm TV news and vice versa....

News today is not News... but Nuisance.

Why a section of the citizens feel, there is is high competition amongst media houses which is resulting in poor journalism?

Cut and paste the main deadlines of three newspapers for a week. There will be no positive news.

Watch the 9pm news hour on three-four news channels for a week. There will be no positive news.

Scroll down the Tweets and here... maybe here you may find good tweets from NGOs etc.

What is rotting the standard of journalism is basically the urge or rush to "BREAK NEWS"!

We have more 600+ TV channels, 2000+ publications and around 250+ FM stations.. Not to say the million+ Twitteratis whose job is nothing less than citizen journalism?

How many "Breaking News" can the mentioned media sources publish in a day.... unless they convert even a minor neighbourhood quarrel over border a political, religion or minority issue!!

Every media house be in print, electronic or social.... is in tearing hurry to be the "first" to report any event as breaking news.

As a citizen, I want the media regulation to begin with a simple step: No more "Breaking News" on TV channels. Report news in your regular news hours. We will still watch and listen to you.

Stop asking grieving relatives, "How and when did it happen" esp on hospital premises. We hate you for not respecting their privacy.

Also please do not repeat the same headlines with different structuring and create panic amongst us. We have the ability to apply our senses and make out which is a repeat news but structured differently.

Citizens depend on you to guide us when there is danger to our lives when stepping out. Please stop exaggerating the situation instilling fear and panic in our minds. By watching a news hour in 4 different channels, every hartal or strike seems to look like a civil war and confuses the citizen if he/she should stay indoors or step out to go to workplace.

If all the above need to materialise, we do not need external regulations. That’s restriction of freedom of speech. What we need i every media house CEO takes the decision to stick to good journalism and have their news desk publish, report 7 good, positive stories to 3 negative or tragic stories. This is DOABLE!

Just that the nation will need to sober down, the throaty reporter in casual, crumpled clothes will need to smile and look relaxed more times than running after a cow that broke it leash by mistake and report it as torture of animals in a panchayat. This will mean we are subjected to stories of citizens, leaders who ARE DOING GOOD in the society and we are growing.

Such self-regulations means only qualified, dignified journalists get to do real journalism and all those who cannot do perish and go to another planet.

We do not need external regulations in media... but self-discipline and good journalism by self-regulation.

Will the media houses Unite Or will they squabble over tough decisions?

Lets wait for the next "Breaking News" to know about it :) :)