Media Sonic

     It is a smart move, but puts a question mark on why such features are being printed at all and whose side is being taken. Apparently, interviews taken of the people involved would appear as if the media is objectively reporting a new trend or describing an interesting issue, like a democratic medium would. The involvement of these professionals mentioned above, at a later stage in the report, shows the report in a different colour - the writer has really taken a view of the matter, judged the issue in a particular light, and has put it in a certain category of behaviour classed as abnormal or a cause of concern. In an implicit way, the matter has been reported to the concerned officials.

     Consider reports of suicide, an action that never ceases to trouble our sense of normality and seen as the ultimate and class statement of an individual’s grouse against society and its order in general. It is an act that immediately questions the system. How does a typical media report treat such cases when the subjects happen to be popular and well known? read more »