(This piece first appeared at Exchange4Media.com under the Newsmanic Series)
If the quality of the media is a reflection of the society in which it operates, I begin to wonder now, after repeated self-flagellation, if I have been unnecessarily severe on myself and my professional mates.
This philosophical realisation hit me as I was watching TV channels doing their usual breaking news ‘tandav’ on the Modern School mess Thursday high noon. I have often accused reporters and cameramen of lacking decorum when at work. But see what the camera makes even people like us do. The pushing and jostling, the shouting and screaming, the shoving and snatching of mikes… first grown ups behaving like kids and then kids wanting to be grown ups.
