Media responsibility

This is a topic that has been burning in my mind for some time now, and aggravated lately...
Media , in one way, are the lifelines of a country. They have to report the events promptly and efficiently, with no bias.

But nowadays, reporting is turning out be more of assumptions rather than news itself. The news channels are concentrating more on ratings rather than the humanity point of view. This is simply degradation of news quality.

Let me cite a recent example. During the M'lore air crash, all the channels rushed to the spot immediately. And everyone began taking the credit that "WE ARE THE FIRST TO REPORT FROM THE CRASH SITE"!!! It doesn't matter whether you are first on the scene. What matters is that you have to report the event responsibly.
During then, a "joke" was circulating: "LOOKS LIKE THE IDIOT BOX KNOWS MORE THAN THE BLACK BOX". Why are they simply assuming the chain of events without waiting for any official report? They never realize the consequences. Some people, after seeing the assumed report, can act in haste and cause irreversible damage!!! The actual chain of events may be very different!!!
Also, what shocks me the most is that the media has lost all sense of humanity... When they are busy reporting the event, why can't they help out in search and rescue instead of live reporting, which almost give the same thing again and again??? Use the camera for search and the manpower for rescue... That will be a better use of the media resources...

Another aspect happened during the Bhopal verdict. The channels are busy in USA, trying to track down Warren Anderson, only to find that he had already left that morning!!! My question is: Why was Anderson never tracked by them before? The fact is that when an event occurs, the media simply create a hype to increase their ratings. They forget all about it in a few days!!! If they had tracked him just a day before, they could have caught him!!!

Now let us take 26/11. How can the channels simply record the "top-secret" military operations and report it on national TV??? That's really stupid and gives the attackers ways to escape!!!
Also, the "sting" operations are going out of hand. They expose chinks in the armour and open the gates for terrorists to come in!!! They might report it and before the govt can act, the terrorists would have entered!!!

Now, how do they get "exclusive access" to top-secret documents from top ministries? If this can be done, what happens to the confidentiality of all the documents? They are made confidential so that no 3rd person sees the contents (let it be good or bad). So, why expose on national TV?
Also, by exposing the scams, they are simply tarnishing the whole nation's image in front of the whole world. It is simply turning out to be a publicity programme for everyone involved in it and nothing useful is happening!!! Scams have to be exposed, I agree... But think about the nation first, before exposing them...

If any media person is reading this, please think about this and if you can change them, change it for the good... Else, we will be forced to take it s a way of life!!!

If you think the people like only such reporting, think again... Responsible reporting involves making the people think and act... and they only wait for you to give them news items!!! They simply accept the details and never demand any particular category!!! THINK AGAIN...