Media has been the real pain of this Commonwealth Games ! You say Beijing was better - Reflect on this -- tight control on media all the 2008 Olympics blips were sealed and thrown into dustbin. May be we should also have followed the pattern. Sometimes such restrictions give a positive boost to the event of this mega scale - with no pull outs the least(thanks to bad media, headed by our very own Indians). You were given an unprecedented walk through the stadiums for understanding the readiness and what did you guys ended up doing? Yeah right - Finding faults for TRP's. For a second take a breather and ask yourselves - What is your role in the society, to the games to the commonwealth games? Only if you had time for an introspection !!
I know you don't have time to think about moral's and ethics in this competitive world. Do you? If you had then how on earth can you keep showing the footage of where, how and which part did the police man touch (an accident turned into breaking news) a female activist (referring to the recent incidents in Andra) so many times? It is not one channel to blame, all the 14 news channels (national, local channels part of cable programs) took the poor activist to a ride in the name of Justice. These vulgar analysis were being done my fellow women who happened to be doing 'justice' to their profession of reporter and reader respectively ! Wow Media, what a 'Justice'! [Mind you even before the media took on this storm the police was reprimanded for his sudden rush of blood with a transfer and strict warning, apology sent and accepted by the parties involved.]
So it doesn't surprise me that if MEDIA can do such a thing to women (in a country where history preaches us to treat females with utmost respect) for TRP's then it takes the commonwealth for a ride. Is this what the 'Aam Janta' wants? Certainly not! I take this opportunity to call upon the media to be considerate and stop playing on my country names for your TRP's. I want the best in the world to come and compete in my Capital. I want the kid's of my nation to be inspired by these wonderful athletes and make it big some day ! Please don't rob this opportunity from the hands of Young India with a 'Dil'.
And to all the athletes out their a quote from the Champion of Champion's : Freeman -“As an athlete I was pretty ruthless and very focussed, I was very unfazed by any kind of external goings-on, once I knew what my target was, I stayed committed. Nothing could really take me away from an arena of competition. My priority was just to compete and compete against the best there was,”.
Come and make history ! Not often will you guys get a chance to win over the hearts of 1.3 billions !
