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Yellow yellow dirty fellow

I was in yellow group when I was in school and I was often teased by rival groups with the above sentence

I was wondering whether yellow is always associated with dirty things

I am a keen follower of others’ perception on any issue.
So I did the same for Indian cricket teams' tour down under, I was going thro a cricket column in an online Australian News paper, where i came across a word called Yellow journalism.
I was keen to know what it meant, after searching for the meaning and its origin.

For those who don’t know the meaning of yellow journalisn like me:

Yellow journalism is a pejorative reference to journalism that features scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. It has been loosely defined as "not quite libel".

Well after reading this. With little introspection. It created a doubt in my mind about our Indian Media, Especially Electronic media. Where they sensationalize every small issue

One of the News channels was already flashing on the screen Sachin breaks 90’s jinx scores 38th century; well he was still on 96.

With lots of competition and driven by TRP ratings these channels instead of doing a balance of positive and negative journalism, they focus on spicing up the news hour focusing on scandals.

Its pity to see these channels cover second by second updates of a celebrity marriage procession . The same channel cover a Celebrity actor criminal’s journey from his residence to court halls. And the same channel tries to create public sympathy by focusing on his good work.

One news channel though flashes news from CPM head quarters faster than any news channel, the chief editor n who is also co-owner of the net work is co-brother of Gen Sec (CPM).

Yes there is a Revolution in some cases like Manjunath, Jessica lal…. Its done a tremendous Job.

But my point is in pursuit of success in short time. These people are becoming Unprofessional. They are forgetting ethics.

Most of the journalists tend to take sides when it comes to National Issues like the one in Sydney cricket, even Australian journalists as well as Indian journalists, all Indian journalists were vying for bucknor’s ouster, but he is the sachin tendulkar of umpiring or brain Lara of umpiring . When I look back now I fell we all over reacted n all of us acted like kids. So was Aus journalists after perth victory.

And the design of life is we all tend to forget Neutrality and take sides depending on our perception. But who are journalists , but instead of being a Messenger, they are impounding their views on viewers. Are they doing a professional job, I am not convinced.