Duty of Both the Sides

Do you trust that media has lost its credibility? Don't you opine that everything is as usual?

A few weeks ago, Manisha overheard a conversation in the local train, while she was returning home from her college. Three or four ladies were busy in discussing about the credibility that media holds at present.

They believed, “It is the media that tries to cater spicy news to the people for its own profit.”

One of them said, “I can make a mention of the accident, in which, the youth was pushed out off the train. Don't you think that the news channels overtly emphasized the issue?”

Sometime later, another lady commented, “...but I'm of the opinion that print media is indispensable even now-a-days. Yes, it is true that there's something corrupt in everything, still we can't live without it, because living without media is like a life with no light.”

It became intolerable for Manisha to listen to the ongoing discourse any more. She, abruptly, protested, “Nothing in this world is totally good, nor is everything completely evil. There's nothing you can term to be perfect.”

Then one of those women agreed with her, “She's absolutely right, I suppose. The credibility of media depends upon us, the readers and the viewers also. Of course, media has to retain its honesty, duty and responsibility, and for this initiative, we have to extend our supports as well.”

Before getting down from the train, the college-going girl replied, “The duty should be on both the informers and the receivers. Only then everything will be trust-worthy. We can't blame media alone, nor are only we the culprits. Think of the two opposite sides of a mundane coin. It can teach us so much.”